Il Regno Unito sta diventando più secco. Potrebbe riutilizzare l’aiuto dell’acqua grigia?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/the-uk-is-getting-drier-could-reusing-greywater-help
di Frutas_del_bosque
Il Regno Unito sta diventando più secco. Potrebbe riutilizzare l’aiuto dell’acqua grigia?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/the-uk-is-getting-drier-could-reusing-greywater-help
di Frutas_del_bosque
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They do it in Japan . All that bath water gets pump straight into a holding tank for your washing machine ..
It’s rained for two days straight. Not enough to fill a local lake back up tho. The level is dangerously low
My bath/shower drains into a water butt. I use a pump and soaker hoses and use it in the garden.
Or charge for excessive water use?
If you need to curb utilities wastage / demand, introduce higher payment bands for people that use extreme amounts.
UK is surrounded by water, it’s an island. Maybe focus on technology they makes use of this…
No. It would not. The amount of water we’re talking about is ridiculously huge, compared to human consumption. Besides, the UK is not getting drier. We get more rainfall every decade. Global warming <=> more moisture in the air. [https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-temperature-rainfall-and-sunshine-time-series](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-temperature-rainfall-and-sunshine-time-series)
What we need is more water reservoirs, lakes, marshes. Most of the land is built up or farmed. We’re experts at avoiding floods by flushing all that fresh water quickly back into the sea..
There has been a leak near where I work for 3+ years. It has been reported dozens of times. I’d estimate 2000l a day are being lost from it.
That’s one leak.
Now consider the rest of the leaks they can’t afford to fix because of the bonuses the bosses need.
Fixing the leaks would be a good start on us running out of water.
I thought the general consensus is that the UK will get wetter due to climate change?
Regardless, even if every member of the public reduced their water consumption by 50%, even at a high estimate it would only save about as much water as we lose to PIPELINE LEAKS every day
How about we hold water companies responsible for a change
Is this one of these things where they say the UK but actually they’re mean England?
Desalination plants around the UK could help surely
My brother works in water for the local council. He tells me to ignore all the hosepipe bans etc. Says the amount Severn Trent lose in leakages is the issue so they can stick the hosepipe bans.
>The UK is getting drier
Someone might want to tell Scotland…
I remember designing a system in CDT back in 1991 using grey water to flush toilets, my parents were in the pet accessories wholesale business so I made a model using aquatic pumps and filters.
Unfortunately the difference between wetter weather and restocking underground aquifers is a few hundred years.
The UK. Running out of water. Where it rains almost every day.
This is criminal mismanagement on the largest scale.
Unable to manage something that literally falls from the sky.
Standard response of ‘it’s all the fault of the water companies and leaks’ – no conception that it may be the human desire to just use every single resource we have to depletion and to hell with the consequences
UK is surrounded by water, desalination is the answer
Maybe make water meters compulsory for all?
Get the water companies to start fitting them, starting with the highest council tax bands (as they are more likely to be watering large gardens, filling swimming pools etc than a band A flat).
We could also have no standing charge and a base level of free water, paid for by taxing extreme water use?