La siccità dichiarata nell’Inghilterra nord -occidentale | Notizie nel Regno Unito
https://news.sky.com/story/drought-declared-in-north-west-england-13376277
di Scooby359
La siccità dichiarata nell’Inghilterra nord -occidentale | Notizie nel Regno Unito
https://news.sky.com/story/drought-declared-in-north-west-england-13376277
di Scooby359
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I think it was pretty obvious from the number of moorland fires 🤷
I better ready the Interceptor to fight off those marauding biker gangs from Carlisle intent on stealing our water.
Hardly a surprise. My morning dog walk takes in 3 reservoirs, all of which are practically empty. And this particular patch of NW England is one of the wettest bits of the UK.
Drizzly now, with fairly heavy rain forecast for next week. It has been a weirdly dry spring, but I think we’re about set for a regression to the mean.
Wettest part of the f’ing country and we have a drought, has anyone check Cumbria for leaks?
(I wasn’t sure on the scale of that image until I saw the road, hell that’s big)
Not surprising.
Went for a walk in the Peak District the other day – the moors are all burnt and the reservoirs are running dry.
Having your population grow by 10 million in 20/30 years and not building any new reservoirs or desalination facilities will do that.
Yeh I went for a walk around Wayoh reservoir in Bolton and one half is completely empty and the other half is only around 60% full. I’ve never seen that before.
Looks like the drought could end quickly given the weather today
Water companies: what if we pump sewage into the lakes and rivers?
All this talk of needing new reservoirs (we do need them, still waiting for a new one since 1991 – the population has grown by 10million since then) but has anybody ever thought of making the ones we already have… deeper?
Between the beginning of March and middle of May, it barely rained at all in Greater Manchester, an area renowned for being wet and grey, at a time of year renowned for being wet. It’s absolutely no surprise that we’d start to see drought conditions.
People can blame water companies for being shit (and they are) but they’re not the ones who were making it unseasonably dry and sunny.
Fortunately, the rain is back with a vengeance in the last week, and I’ve seen river levels rise several inches in just a few days. More rain is forecast, and for once I’m absolutely fine with it.
Proper “I wish it would be sunny. NO NOT LIKE THAT” vibes this spring.
Just you wait for the deluge as the kids are breaking up for summer.
England needs to nationalise water infrastructure – Having access to a resource necessary for life being blocked by leeches and parasites who will literally dump raw sewage into the waterways as much as they can get away with, ripping the actual piss, giving themselves back pats, big bonuses, sweaty tugs. Fuck that.
Nationally we’re at 84% capacity, which sounds like we’re doing ok. For the NW to be in drought, it’s reservoirs must be a lot lower. Exactly how much water has United Utilities from its system? And how much from leaks?
Yep, United Utilities – nearly as good as Thames Water 👍