Le aree a rischio di siccità come onde di calore a 35 ° C.
di Wagamaga
Le aree a rischio di siccità come onde di calore a 35 ° C.
di Wagamaga
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The Midlands, East Anglia and the north-east of England are at high risk of drought if the hot, dry weather persists next month, the Environment Agency has warned.
This could pile further pressure on farmers and potentially push up some supermarket prices, according to retailers.
Following the driest spring in England for 132 years – and with temperatures forecast to hit 35°C on Monday – the Environment Agency has already declared a drought in two parts of northern England, with several other areas of Britain in danger of following in the coming weeks.
“The North West and Yorkshire are officially in drought status, with a risk of drought moving into the North East, Midlands and East Anglia if the weather remains unusually hot and dry,” an Environment Agency spokesperson told The i Paper.
“We urge people to be mindful that slightly reducing their daily water use this summer will benefit our rivers and lakes, and the wildlife they support,” they added.
Eastern Scotland and northern and eastern Wales are also in danger of moving into drought as they are classed as being in “prolonged dry weather” status – one rung below a drought.
Does this drought include my access to carbonated caffeine drinks?
I live in Essex and I’m surprised they have not announced a hosepipe ban, it has hardly rained properly for months, a few quick tropical style showers, not proper English rain.
Im holding back , I have 2 litres in my fridge so I can my turds this weekend.
Most parts of the country, I’d assume. We’ve had drastically less rainfall this year, with prolonged extremely dry periods broken up by short, rainy periods. River levels are still notably lower than usual and reservoirs are still much emptier than we would expect.
From one extreme to another. Back in January we had a major incident declared here due to extreme flooding, the like of which I’ve never seen. And now we’re on the verge of drought.
I am in the Thames Water area.
They put in compulsory water meters two year ago for every one who can have one, plus water “monitoring” meters for groups of houses and flats that can’t have them.
Since they have put them in there have been numerous pipe bursts of fresh clean water that they don’t deal with for at least a week at a time. Some of them have caused flooding.
Plus some sewage substations pipes are bursting.
Currently one of the main roads near me as two lots of temporary traffic lights within a mile due to a fresh water pipe burst and then further up a sewage pipe burst.
Point is due to the amount Thames Water are wasting due to their execs taking bonuses rather than fixing the infrastructure and then demanding bills increase by 50% every year, I am now not going out of my way to limit the amount of water I use.
Better start building some better infrastructure because it’s only going to get worse.
Cue Farage trying to get fracking going again as he tries to speedrun killing the planet.
Too busy spending money on other country’s problems to consider building a few reservoirs to store the excessive amounts of rain we usually get in the UK🙄
Where I live it has to be really bad for us to get a hosepipe ban as we hand underground aquifers. Can’t remember the last one we had. Didn’t have one when it got to 40 and the country turned brown for weeks.
However that was in August.
Already all the grass is like straw now so a dry July and August will test the country for sure.
Humans lived in hotter countries with way less rainfall than us, and managed to survive. It’s wild but what they actually did is collect and store rain for use when none fell. And then didn’t sell their means for holding and distributing that water to greedy cunts.