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Water shortage, why?

The Usk at Abergavenny is a little low, but nothing to cause any concerns. The Afon Llwyd is the same.

All the reservoirs above Merthyr are looking fine as well.
 
Why do we insist on using water purified and treated to the nth degree to flush our toilets?
Because if we had drinking water and " grey " water supplies to homes at differing prices a lot of morons will be trying to sue because they've got ill from drinking the less treated water.

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The water companies really must be taking the piss.....

Oh they do, and re-process it, and sell it on to us.

The water boards, for that is what they were originally called, were paid for and set up by local councils, paid from council taxes, they belonged to the local tax paying public, run as a service, and not for profit. Then along came Maggie, in effect she stole them, and sold them off to the highest bidder, for profit. Today you have the obscenity of life's most crucial component being sold for vast profits, which end up in foriegn investors and board room directors pockets. Combine this with the relatively un-checked influx of foriegn nationals, an expanding population, on a already overcrowded small island, no new reservoirs being built, and a reliance on a Victorian supply infrastructure, and you have the lunacy of an island surrounded by water, a comprehensive canal system, and rivers everywhere, and after 3 weeks of sunshine, a hosepipe ban. In 1976 it came down to standpipes in the streets and water bowsers, now some 42 years later and 10 million more people to supply, we are back to a war mentality on the supply and distribution of life's most precious component..... Rant over. END.
 
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Run off can be a problem, but I often think how much of a problem is it.

Has 92% of the country not been built on?

However run off is more to do with drainage especially in built up areas!!.Ask the people of Oakey ,Toowoomba,the darling downs,Gatton and the Brisbane River valley about run off problems!! in 2011/2012 an area aslarge as germany and half of france was flooded by run off, caused by overdevelopment on the great dividing range from Crows nest to Stanthorpe, complete villages washed away, over 250 dead,100s of families left homeless,when natural water ways are built over the water finds the easiest way out, in our case Toowoomba the main roads became raging rivers sweeping everything before them, to say we were not prepared is putting it mildly, of course the geezers in charge of water management panicced because the dams were full, sothey opened the damgates:mad:successfully flooding the Gatton Plains and the brisbane river valley,bodies of victims from the gatton area were recovered in moreton bay 150kms away from flood source, we think run off is a PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even if the drains can’t cope, the water goes elsewhere but isn’t captured where it’s needed.

ISTR that Staffordshire is overcoming a water shortage by pinching water from Birmingham who in turn get it from Wales.

Water company’s are reducing leaks, and also doing the tried and tested method of curtailing customer use by charging for it.
 
Because if we had drinking water and " grey " water supplies to homes at differing prices a lot of morons will be trying to sue because they've got ill from drinking the less treated water.

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Rainwater harvesting would be a sensible approach, particularly for remote properties.
 
Oh they do, and re-process it, and sell it on to us.

The water boards, for that is what they were original called, were paid for and set up by local councils, paid from council taxes, they belonged to the local tax paying public, run as a service, and not for profit. Then along came Maggie, in effect she stole them, and sold them off to the highest bidder, for profit. Today you have the obscenity of life's most crucial component being sold for vast profits, which end up in foriegn investors and board room directors pockets. Combine this with the relatively un-checked influx of foriegn nationals, an expanding population, on a already overcrowded small island, no new reservoirs being built, and a reliance on a Victorian supply infrastructure, and you have the lunacy of an island surrounded by water, a comprehensive canal system, and rivers everywhere, and after 3 weeks of sunshine, a hosepipe ban. In 1976 it came down to standpipes in the streets and water bowsers, now some 42 years later and 10 million more people to supply, we are back to a war mentality on the supply and distribution of life's most precious component..... Rant over. END.

So, it's Brexits fault then?
 
I do note that the reservoirs the beeb have listed are those feeding Manchester/Greater Manchester.
Given the amount of building that has gone on there over the past decade I'm wondering whether the lack of planning as regards water requirements has been foolishly left ignored.
More than certainly.

I was reading up on the elan valley reservoir. It would appear that the good people of Birmingham realised that they needed a water supply to grow the city. They also know that they had severe health problems from their current supply.

The Birmingham council were able to get a bill passed by parliament to compulsory purchase welsh valleys to create reservoirs. Interestingly, Elan valley is 35m above Birmingham so it doesn’t need any form of pumping to get the water from Wales to Birmingham. It’s all gravity fed.

It’ll be damn difficult to build new reservoirs. However, I often wonder why they can’t disperse water reservoirs and start using old quarry’s or building more water towers. Top up during the wet months and use if required.
 
Oh they do, and re-process it, and sell it on to us.

The water boards, for that is what they were original called, were paid for and set up by local councils, paid from council taxes, they belonged to the local tax paying public, run as a service, and not for profit. Then along came Maggie, in effect she stole them, and sold them off to the highest bidder, for profit. Today you have the obscenity of life's most crucial component being sold for vast profits, which end up in foriegn investors and board room directors pockets. Combine this with the relatively un-checked influx of foriegn nationals, an expanding population, on a already overcrowded small island, no new reservoirs being built, and a reliance on a Victorian supply infrastructure, and you have the lunacy of an island surrounded by water, a comprehensive canal system, and rivers everywhere, and after 3 weeks of sunshine, a hosepipe ban. In 1976 it came down to standpipes in the streets and water bowsers, now some 42 years later and 10 million more people to supply, we are back to a war mentality on the supply and distribution of life's most precious component..... Rant over. END.
We’re not using stand pipes this time around.

Out of interest, why didn’t those same nationalised water boards build more reservoirs after 76?
 

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