Alcune parti del Regno Unito sono sull’orlo della siccità
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cjwx0xv571eo
di CensorTheologiae
Alcune parti del Regno Unito sono sull’orlo della siccità
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cjwx0xv571eo
di CensorTheologiae
26 commenti
Yeah privatising the water companies worked great for everyday people and the environment ☹️
Don’t worry guys, all the riverside corporations have polluted your rivers for years and years!
And because we lack usable water, we even gave you a hosepipe ban!! Goooooo shareholder value!!
It’s always interesting when you live in the north and realise just how different the weather must be down there
No new reservoirs since 1992 (34 years), 2.87 billion litres a day in leaks, temperatures hotter than they’ve ever been.
This isn’t just a problem it’s an impending catastrophe. But it’s ok the bosses of these companies pick up millions a year in bonuses for the good job they’re doing.
Says my area is normal but literally everything other than the biggest trees is dead here. Like grass and small plants are all just shrivelled up. Never honestly seem it this dry before and there’s still no rain forecast.
I kind of feel like pumping water out of the river for my plants to survive. I mean after all they are dumping my waste into said river. Reduce reuse recycle if they can do it with taking out money to pay the idiots that run it then I can do the same
It’s ok lads, we can build more data centres and speed the droughts and hosepipe bans up!
Warm weather, increasing population, no new infrastructure and now add A.I. data centres. At least they’re making profit still.
Water, water, everywhere but shareholders must gain value.
Where we fucked up as a country is not having a national water grid, similar to the electricity National Grid.
We have no shortage of water and won’t unless things get *really* bad, like, we’re talking the Med region being a desert and the tropics being totally uninhabitable.
But we have no way to pipe it en masse from places that have an abundance, to places that don’t.
The prime example is Kent, which is always first to get hit the hardest. They’re *already* facing water shortages and people being cut off, and it’s because London basically cock-blocks them.
There’s no reason for any part of the UK to be short on water, but as most other comments rightly point out, the water companies would rather line their own pockets than invest in a national pipeline system, a project that wouldn’t even be that expensive in the grand scheme of things.
Yet we had the wettest spring on record. If only water companies could build structures to capture this water in? I wonder where all their money goes..?
If you think I’m not using a hose pipe to quickly water my plants so that data centres can keep using the water you can F off at this point. It makes me think of when Ed Byrne joked “what’s the point of rinsing out my recycling when there’s a ski slope in Dubai”
Don’t worry, AI data centres are on the way to make it worse!
In some parts of the UK it rained for 100 consecutive days over winter into spring.
5 weeks of sunshine and we’re into a drought?
Where’s the Billions we pay in water taxes to the privately owned companies?
You would hope this is the summer people finally realise that climate change is here, half-measures will not cut it anymore, and that we need to adapt to the new normal now. Sadly, the can will be kicked down the road instead. Droughts and food shortages will be the norm going ahead and still people will vote against their own interests by trusting in weak environmental policies, or in parties who plan to abolish green measures entirely. If we put a war effort into environmental adaptation now (a great opportunity to create thousands of jobs and to be a global pioneer in the industry) then we could put ourselves into a good position come 2050. Instead, we will prevaricate and no significant action will be taken until it is far too late.
It’s going to be fine, our government are focusing on water draining data centres for AI so that’ll sort it out.
It is so dry where we are that I am worried about fires now.
On the brink? Here there are big gaps between the ‘lawn’ and pavement because the ground are shrunk so much and if it’s windy dust blows in your face.
It’s weird that we have hosepipe bans but it’s completely fine to burn things despite it being so dry.
The real issue here isnt water companies. Harvest is really early this year, but yields are way, way down. Ive seen wheat fields where the farmer has bashed his combine header to pieces trying to trim low to get at the grain.
The impact of this will mean we have to import wheat and cereals from canada and further afield, which means higher food prices, on top of the normal..ahem..normal prices.
Then comes the problem of re drilling in autumn. Its pointless now, so the crop cycle is now having to wait potentially months to get started again. Which will mean farmers have to rapidly adjust for a cramped planting season in autumn when…if..it rains.
Apart from its not that simple. Come spring, the weather may launch from one extreme to the other, or carry on being dry as a bone. Farmers have to invest their meagre profits into seed and fertiliser which could all go to waste.
Be prepared for everyday items to get even more expensive….
I’m South East not too far from Heathrow and everything is scorched.
And it still might not rain at all for the whole of August.
That sounds like a serious problem for someone else to solve. I have to cash this dividend/bonus check I’ve just been sent.
In all seriousness, the population need to agree to stop paying their water bill
Don’t worry guys, there’s a new data centre being built that will get first dibs on what little water remains so there will definitely be droughts next year 👍
Shouldn’t be having droughts in the UK, water company bosses are worse than scum
I’m just a random bloke, but building reservoirs, put a few businesses like boats, cafes etc etc seems like a solid plan. Maybe even charge to park your car around it.