Drought in the South-East

[poledark]

Same here Chesters, water still oozing from springs and running out of the lakes. River looks normal, but then it isn't a deep river anyway.

 

Den

[Newt]

Its been a tough year for South-East and not only in the UK. My area, SE US, is a bit on the dry side as well. Here's hoping we all get some badly needed rain and I can't even blame water extraction since there isn't much of it in this area.

 

 

[chesters1]

Same here Chesters, water still oozing from springs and running out of the lakes. River looks normal, but then it isn't a deep river anyway.

 

Den

 

no the wey here is shallow as well about 12" to 18" deep at the bridges ,a 1000 years ago it was deep enough for barges but thats down to neglect and the insistence organisations think england needs to be "natural" what ever that is, "natural" ended for ever in the bronze age

Edited November 25, 2011 by chesters1

[Phone]

Newt,

 

I understand SE as it relates to the US. I wonder how you tell if you are in SE or South Central UK? The whole of the place is about like NJ.

Fresh water is a scarry subject.

 

Phone

 

That said, I hope the UK gets a lot of gentle rain. No frog stranglers for it just runs off. Repeated gentle rain is best.

[Steve Walker]

I had a couple of days off in the week. On Friday, I fished the River Colne near Fairford, for Grayling, fly only. I had been thinking about getting a few people from AN down to fish it, but thought I would try it out myself first. It was pitifully low. I had a little brownie and lost a couple of others and saw a few more, but not a sniff of grayling. To be honest, I came away thinking that water levels like that meant that if the winter grayling fishery there ever had been worththe thirty-odd quid a day it cost me, it certainly isn't now. I'm definitely relieved I didn't drag anyone else into the folly.

[Leon Roskilly]

More

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011...2012?CMP=twt_fd

[chesters1]

More

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011...2012?CMP=twt_fd

 

it may be interesting to ask the EA who manage that area a few questions

how many extraction licences do they issue in the catchment

how much water is extracted

and lastly have they stopped it in any way ?

 

then you move over to the water authority in the catchment and ask

how many leaks do you have

how much water are you losing

and lastly why?

Edited December 2, 2011 by chesters1

[wunnus]

must be everyone else the pond outlet continues to run and the river is its usual gin clear depth here.

"drought" tends to be put about when the water companies want more money ,if they plugged their own wastage then the problem would evaporate ,its certainly not been hot enough to evaporate naturally

stop selling water abstraction licences and i have no doubt the problem would disapear

 

 

No doubt to all that

 

But my local stream is way too low.... getting to be a number of pools with little in between.

[Tigger]

Brian (Lutra) and myself where going to have a repeat trip tomorrow after he showed me how to catch fish last week but the rivers are up a bit to much, it's bloody cold and the rains coming down horizontal so we've decided to bow out gracefully ....certainly no shortage of the watery stuff.

[Phone]

All,

 

Is the UK self sustaining for water. I mean, do you a a giant pipe from Belgium or such? Maybe via tanker? De-salinization(sp) projects?

 

Is there a "number" for the usable reserves?

 

If the water is being properly used and distributed I don't "get" Chesters1's point. That should be a function of government.

 

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