Drought declared across eight areas of England

An official drought has been declared across eight areas of England - amid the driest summer for 50 years.
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It means water companies can take tougher measures to conserve stocks - while the Environment Agency has warned it will take "weeks worth" of rain to restore supplies.
Drought status now applies to a swathe of areas from Devon and Cornwall to East Anglia and up to Lincolnshire - as well as north and south London.
While a Met Office amber warning for extreme heat is in place until midnight on Sunday.
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[@The_ginger_fisherman]

If I open my living room window I can hear the lovely sound of running water.... from the bust water pipe pumping gallons and gallons of fresh clean water down the road every day. its been doing it for over a month now. All the water company has done is put an incident sign next to it. Maybe we wouldn't be in such a mess if they just fix the major leaks over the country

[@jn8922]

Wow... Over a month. Thats crazy. How hard could it be to repair that pipe?

[@IONS-LEGACY]

@PGH Engineer Poplar High Street

[@martinhambleton5076]

A burst pipe, caused by climate change?

[@puckinhell622]

No reservoirs built since 1991, yet immigration both legal and illegal runs rampant.

[@tonyjefferson3502]

1981

[@vhawk1951kl]

Who told you that immigration both legal and illegal runs rampant., and why do you believe them? e gods.

[@puckinhell622]

@@vhawk1951kl so all those illegal immigrants just flopping on to our shores are an illusion and the government’s own legal immigration figures are what BS. If you believe that……well e gods!

[@xne1592]

The water companies are a joke. The waterman on my land, asbestos cement, broke regularly. Eventually nearly a dozen times in a week. We would look out of the window and see small geyser of water coming out of the ground and running down our meadow to the stream. Before the main could be replaced there were around a dozen site visits by women in reflective jackets, manager this and manager that, none of ghem had a clue. At ever visit they seemed to have no recollection of the conclusion of hhe previous visit. They eventually replaced the main, it took them over twelve months to complete. The spurs off the main are still asbestos cement and still keep leaking. The latest one they found had wasted 400 tonnes of water before repaired.....

[@snowsnow4231]

why would they worry about anything - the owner of the company is banging models somewhere in Miami, the money keep coming to his bank account for a new Bugatti this year, do you really think they worry about those peasant problems? Oligarchy is same everywhere, people who benefit do not even live in the country most of the time, visiting their business once a year. As long as the cash is pouring into their bank accounts, they do not care. Once less cash comes, you could always fire a couple thousand people

[@MrBoggins1234]

Good grief, who is your local water provider? Why not name and shame them here? I would.

[@Vbluevital]

This is definately unfortunate yet public restraint from fires, BBQs and non-essential water usage must be implemented for survival and should be enforced with heavy fines.

[@xne1592]

@@Vbluevital whose survival would that be....

[@Vbluevital]

@@xne1592 I miss spoke a qualifier is needed longer survival.

[@Emkei2010]

Water bill will become more expensive very soon on par with oil and gas. Less supply and more demand. Great news for water companies who will gain tremendous profit from the water shortages 😃

[@zobmie9785]

And electric is getting more expensive, it’s a literal joke.

[@fivewindow32]

All part of the plan.

[@klausschwab5236]

You think this isn't deliberate?.

[@climeaware4814]

over a decade ago, I told my wife in the future, expect to see water wars!

[@tonyjefferson3502]

who would have thought that with no increased storage since 1981 whilst the population has increased by over 20% in the same period would have any effect?

[@alex29443]

That is a very fair point - but you try selling new dams to the current electorate.. they seem to much prefer magical thinking.

[@hedydd2]

Precisely. Plus every person seems to consume 20%+ more than the 1970’s person.

[@alex29443]

@@hedydd2 Well that's not true, peak consumption of pretty much all resources per capita was in the 70's

[@hedydd2]

@@alex29443 Not of water.

[@MsVanorak]

yup

[@freddiepiras391]

It pissed down 11 months out of 12 in this country. Get a grip

[@orange1666]

Most sensible comment here , most of the time it’s pissing down in the Uk , if we don’t have enough water it’s because the system is failing us

[@fastertrackcreative]

Doesn't change drought scenario now.

[@freddiepiras391]

@@orange1666 thank you

[@freddiepiras391]

@@fastertrackcreative it does. Because we are wearing a mask to protect ourselves and others

[@marlonblade007]

Last year sure, not this one though

[@darrenhamilton5859]

Amazing how we suffer droughts once we have a few weeks of sunshine. The water companies need to be questioned as to why if the temperatures are going up why they arent making provisions for such and looking at further ways of saving water instead of losing it through leaks from an antiquated system

[@karolzach3888]

Because they well know these days we can blame literally everything on climate change

[@outcastp23]

This is anagulous to having a house on fire you notice the fire is spreading really fast due to extremely flamable carpet. Instead of calling the fire brigade to bring the fire under control, you call up the carpet manufactuerer to complain about the carpet.

[@theevildice83]

It's almost like we've consistently voted for an incompetent government that refuses to invest in upgrading utilities.

[@vhawk1951kl]

Drought is given an artificial and contrived definition, like poverty-it is entirely arbitrary

[@gemmag.2988]

@@theevildice83 Truth!

[@richardanson2445]

It will if the water companies keep squandering the masses of rain that falls on these small islands.

[@penderyn8794]

Farmers and urban areas have incredibly efficient drainage...unspoken factor

[@nopretribrapture2318]

@@penderyn8794 there's a few farms using sea water irrigation system for crops,desalination could be used also for human and animal consumption, very expensive though, but these big greedy corporations don't want to invest for us bill payers 😑

[@lennydale92]

Biggest islands in Europe is small?

[@eveoakley6270]

I’m only have a small garden yet I have 5 barrels of rainwater 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@vhawk1951kl]

Is not as if there is a shortage of water on a regular basis in this country, which is notorious for its rainfall, and I'm not sure that one can "squander" that which is virtually limitless, save on rare and exceptional occasions which from time to time occur purely accidentally. In my relatively long life I have been a number of occasions when for one or another reason it did not rain for some time and invariably there was a good deal of hysteria about that and of course the proponents of the absurd religion of climate change/global warming_ism, will seize on any opportunity to characterise whatever happens as evidence to support the tenets of that absurd religion which is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. It is simply absurd to assume that because it does not rain for some time it will never rain again all the sky will fall, because the planet appears to be virtually made of water, so it must rain in due course because a lot of water has been evaporating, and it has to go somewhere, and it is definitely not disappearing into outer space like radiant heat energy, and the various mechanisms for delivering or distributing water across the planet seem to be fairly reliable and more or less predictable, and it is simply hysteria to suppose that because it does not rain for a few weeks always rather hot that there is somehow the end of the world, but men (human beings) do seem to be rather given to hysteria, because rather than being present they dream about that fantasy that they call the future, and as a result of that unnecessary dreaming, they cause themselves wholly unnecessary suffering. It will undoubtedly rain soon enough and I remember in 1976, which was before that absurd religion of climate change/global warming_ism was invented, some people did indeed wonder if it would ever rain again, and of course the rain did come and everything returned to what some call "normal", presumably because there is a limit to how much water the atmosphere will hold, and common sense tells one that sooner or later that water vapour, which is the most predominant of what are called the greenhouse gases will condense out as rain, and if previously established patterns continue, as a general rule the northern European monsoon, otherwise known as the return of the westerlies, occurs in or about July, or whenever it is that I want to go camping in Cornwall. The entire religion of global warming or climate change is based upon one fundamental misapprehension which, if you remove it, causes the entire theory or religion to collapse, and the fundamental misapprehension is that there either is or can be, any such thing as a Global temperature. It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth. A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate. Planet Earth doesn’t have ‘a temperature’, one figure that says it all. There are oceans, landmasses, ice, the atmosphere, day and night, and seasons. Also, the temperature of Earth never gets to equilibrium: just as it’s starting to warm up on the sunny-side, the sun gets ‘turned off’; and just as it’s starting to cool down on the night-side, the sun gets ‘turned on’. The ‘temperature of Earth’ is therefore as much of a contrived statistic as the GDP of a country. (If the Earth was in equilibrium, that is, if it absorbed and re-emitted the Sun’s radiation perfectly, as a ‘blackbody’, then its rotation would be irrelevant, and the temperature would be a constant 6 ⁰C. Mocking up the effects of Earth’s albedo brings the ‘blackbody’ temperature down to -18 ⁰C, and including greenhouse warming brings it back up to around 15 ⁰C.) ‘The climate’ is difficult to define: is it a trend over one decade, century, or millennium? For what sized region is it defined ? Weather is very variable - how can we go from weather to climate? Furthermore, climate change on human timescales is a very small effect, and the empirical data needed for climate models have large ‘error’ bars.

[@eh1702]

People have to address what it is that’s literally drying out the rivers. It is not only abstraction, though that is at criminal levels: but it is also that so much of southern England in particular is so concreted and tarmacked over that the runoff of fresh good water goes straight into sewers. Our cities consist more of dedicated to for cars than for people and buildings.

[@theq-1]

More like 6 million more migrants over 10 years using it! Its 99% over extraction for housing from aquifers and rivers. simple as that.

[@helloitsfincow]

@@theq-1 Yes surely an under 10 percent population increase over 10 years has caused all our water issues. Imagine breathing with that much brain damage.

[@leifcian4288]

There you go right on cue... Said the guy who advertises the chainsaws he uses...

[@samn6498]

@@theq-1 sure mate. I always knew houses were built out of water.

[@flumpaustin1994]

@@samn6498 The residents consume the water.

[@jasonuren3479]

What about doing something to stop the 3 billion litres lost through leaks in pipes in the UK every DAY?

[@VBugGaming]

That makes the water companies alot of money when they charge the residents, they won't be in a rush to fix that.

[@plesno6165]

Imagine having water issues when it rains more than the sun comes out, meanwhile countries living in the desert are much more water secure than you. If that doesn’t sound like outright corruption and incompetence then I don’t know what will.

[@swift9431]

I do need to stop sending that £2 a month.

[@damianbylightning6823]

There's enough rain and should be enough water. Thanks to uncontrolled immigration the population has grown by nearly a fifth since the last dam was completed. Go figure.

[@alex29443]

I don't know if that's fair really, the problem is not the quantity of rainfall so much as the exceptional variance - it has rained faar less than normal. It makes no sense to build desalination plants when you can rely on the rain 99 years out of 100.

[@plesno6165]

@@alex29443 This has been happening for so many consecutive years now that its beyond ridiculous. If they really can’t come up with a mitigation plan after all these years, then my statement about them being corrupt and incompetent stands, no? I can come up with a list of solutions from the top of my head instantly without even using major brain cells to see if its realistic or not. Seeing the media spouting “drought” in the UK is an embarrassment. Makes us look like a bunch of muppets in-front of countries that live only on sea water desalination with minimal to no annual rain.

[@damianbylightning6823]

@@alex29443 Collect water in dams. Transfer water to S E England, where it's needed, via rivers and streams. There's been enough rain this year to keep all rivers topped up and keep us out of drought. If we just count English rainfall - it's the lowest since 76. But we shouldn't, we should count all Eng and Wales.

[@jmc6687]

We had drought regularly in the 70's and 80's the problems today are worse because, 1) we dont dredge the rivers and canals anymore so they dont drain the water causing floods in winter, 2) population increase with no increase in reservoirs capacity. Its not rocket science just years of inept government and uncontrolled immigration.

[@IONS-LEGACY]

Would you shurrup Barry Smith?

[@adamlea6339]

There was one drought in the 1970's, 1975 and 1976. I am unaware of any other droughts from then until at least 1990.

[@petervautmans199]

stupidest comment in quite some time.

[@paulb9769]

Yet they flood us with untold numbers of immigrants.

[@mikeelliott2736]

The last time a drought was declared in the U.K. was in 2018.

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

THERE NEVER IS A PLAN MOVING FORWARD THE GOVERNMENT ONLY SHIFT THEMSELVES AFTER THE HORSE HAS BOLTED IN ALMOST EVERY CATASTROPHY.

[@vhawk1951kl]

Those that abuse capital letters emphasise nothing but the hysteria of the abuser and declare to all the world that they are raving lunatics to be dismissed as no more than a raving lunatics.You do yourself no favours by abusing capital letters you just come across as a loony which you may well be for all I know, the but on the evidence you are definitely a loony, because only loonies abuse capital letters.

[@user-mo5hz9kp6y]

Just deport the unwanted 6 million guests we have. There'll be 6 million less people and 6 million toilet flushes a day at the very least. That's 6.6 million UK gallons of drinkable water being wasted daily, 196 million monthly. Minimum. That figure doesn't include showers and clothes washing either. That will fill a cube shaped hole 1km by 1km and 3281 feet deep. Minimum. That is deep enough to crush a Royal Navy ballistic missile sub. In reality its probably quadruple the volume. Minimum. Reduce the depth and the square area of the surface expands. So how big is our capital city London I ask when taking into consideration the average height of the buildings. We're not just suffering a drought we're suffering from severe over population are we not.

[@vhawk1951kl]

Those that abuse capital leters emphasise nothing but the hysteria of the abuser who declare to all the world by abusing capital letters that he is a raving lunatic; see capial letters, think loonyand invariably be correct.

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

@@vhawk1951kl AND YOU ARE SANE??!

[@vhawk1951kl]

@@sarahjones-jf4prI am not going to mock you for asking such an asinine question, but rather conjure you to delete it before it goes all round the internet and you become a laughing stock. Quick , Quick before someone sees it; it is lucky for you that I am a kind man and aware of the duty noblesse oblige. I really do bless you for you have given me the best laugh I have had in years, but delete that asinine question before it goes all round the internet. What possible answer did you imagine you might get to that asinine question?-Quick delete it while you have time. If you cannot understand why, ask a grownup, but do it quickly and thank god that I have compassion for you. If you are reading this in black-and-white the green letters are just next to the blue letters and the invisible letters on top of the virtual letters, which look like little ill-tempered squirrels

[@TheTrickshot77]

For people outside the UK watching: The UK hasn't seen weather like this for over 20 years, most years it's wet. Now this is the state we're in after just a handful of days sun, so I'm sure you can tell from this just how corrupt and incompetent our water suppliers are?

[@stephenduggan86]

And also how staggeringly pathetic this hellhole is

[@vhawk1951kl]

That is simply not true, it was much worse than this in 1976, which seems like yesterday to me, these things happen from time to time because the weather is unpredictable although by now the northern European monsoon should have arrived, but sometimes it is a little late, that is all, and that is no reason to subscribe to some lunatic religion such as the recently invented religion of climate change/global warming_ism, which is based on a number of fallacies and complete misunderstandings of thermodynamics, but that particular crazy religion will not be the first religion to make men (human beings wholly incapable of impartial reason. The religion of climate change/global warming_ism is a sub- religion of the religion modernism, which is a sub- religion of the religion socialism, and no, you have not offended de gods. It will rain soon enough exactly as it did in 1976 sometimes you just have to be patient and accept that men (human beings) are utterly helpless in the face of nature which is erratic. It is complete nonsense to speak of the climate changing when you do not define the climate, and by the same token it is complete nonsense to speak of a global temperature which is a thermodynamic and mathematical impossibility.

[@stephenduggan86]

@@vhawk1951kl true. Couldn't have worded it better myself. I agree 100%

[@vhawk1951kl]

@@stephenduggan86 Very dear of you to say so- ta muchly, but we are sinners and heretics in an ocean of bizarre religions. and I don't know about you, but I have no compunction in pointing out that the emperor is not wearing any clothes, and can identify why I state that the religion of climate change/global warming ism is built on sand and depends in its entirety on a fundamental misapprehension and misunderstanding. The next time someone tells you that the climate is changing, ask them to define climate. ‘The climate’ is difficult to define: is it a trend over one decade, century, or millennium? For what sized region is it defined ? Weather is very variable - how can we go from weather to climate? Furthermore, climate change on human timescales is a very small effect, and the empirical data needed for climate models have large ‘error’ bars.

[@Cloud-mp8eo]

@@vhawk1951kl well yes but it’s a bit insane to say climate change is fake

[@mohammadshoaib7816]

Before blaming anyone; one should think about how much water they waste on a daily basis.

[@basher50]

Carry on stirring it up, I bet this channel is still telling the UK that the barrier reef is dying too.

[@jimskirtt5717]

They are keeping quiet about the fact that the Great Barrier Reef has seen its highest growth on record. I'm really not sure which is worse, Channel 4 or the BBC, it's too close to call.

[@basher50]

@@jimskirtt5717 same beast.

[@paphian2990]

If you allow the unfettered import of a new towns worth of uninvited guests every year and don't provide the infrastructure to capture more of the rainfall, of which there is no shortage, then it is inevitable that there will be a strain on existing water supplies whenever we have a couple of days of sunshine, here laughably known as 'summer'.

[@taffymackem2596]

I've been taking buckets of tap water to our local reservoir to help top it up .

[@julianshepherd2038]

I hope you drove carefully

[@taffymackem2596]

@@julianshepherd2038 20mph tops didnt spill a drop

[@Veni_Vidi_Vortice]

I didn't wait for the drought order to come into force so I stopped washing my car about five years ago.

[@apexracing741]

@@Veni_Vidi_Vortice yeah but the drag on your dirty car will make the fuel economy worse so you are adding more dirty gases to the environment :)

[@Veni_Vidi_Vortice]

@@apexracing741 No, I just drive really close to the cars in front and wait for them to use their windscreen washer jet sprays to hose me down.

[@barrylongstaff2816]

Jesus Christ this stuff never ends, “we’re doomed we’re doomed” . Live your lives people, it all ends soon enough

[@queenbean7071]

Though if by changing my actions in life slightly I could decrease the chance of you know, humanities extinction in the next few hundred years i do think it's worth it

[@vhawk1951kl]

‘The entire religion of global warming or climate change is based upon one fundamental misapprehension which, if you remove it, causes the entire theory or religion to collapse, and the fundamental misapprehension is that there either is or can be, any such thing as a Global temperature. It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth. A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate. Planet Earth doesn’t have ‘a temperature’, one figure that says it all. There are oceans, landmasses, ice, the atmosphere, day and night, and seasons. Also, the temperature of Earth never gets to equilibrium: just as it’s starting to warm up on the sunny-side, the sun gets ‘turned off’; and just as it’s starting to cool down on the night-side, the sun gets ‘turned on’. The ‘temperature of Earth’ is therefore as much of a contrived statistic as the GDP of a country. (If the Earth was in equilibrium, that is, if it absorbed and re-emitted the Sun’s radiation perfectly, as a ‘blackbody’, then its rotation would be irrelevant, and the temperature would be a constant 6 ⁰C. Mocking up the effects of Earth’s albedo brings the ‘blackbody’ temperature down to -18 ⁰C, and including greenhouse warming brings it back up to around 15 ⁰C.) ‘The climate’ is difficult to define: is it a trend over one decade, century, or millennium? For what sized region is it defined ? Weather is very variable - how can we go from weather to climate? Furthermore, climate change on human timescales is a very small effect, and the empirical data needed for climate models have large ‘error’ bars.

[@SirHargreeves]

@@queenbean7071 No evidence of humanities extinction. What an absurd statement. At worst, we get hotter summers, sea-level rise by 1m and harder to grow crops in the hottest areas of the world.

[@TrixiLovesYou]

What is horrifying is that everyone is just going about their day in spite of this crisis staring us in the face.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Just going to have buckle down, when the panic sets it, better to let it rampage itself out.

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Because they're all dumb.

[@evildeed90s]

thats the british way we just get on with it same when covid hit

[@DW-dd4iw]

Fun fact: UK water companies lose (leaks etc) around 19% of the water they collect during distribution to homes and businesses. Source: Wikipedia

[@CragScrambler]

Wikipedia 🤣

[@leifcian4288]

How much water is lost due to the shortening of the landscape watershed due to bad agricultural and urban planning patterns? The leakages become pretty insignificant in comparison. Ground water is part of the watershed also therefore depending on where water is leaked its not necessarily "wasted" per se although not ideal for our purposes. Managing water leakages over vast amounts of infrastructure is presumably not really that easy. Maybe there is a case to be made for nationalisation where people don't really have consumer/supplier choice.

[@DW-dd4iw]

@@CragScrambler okay, okay, we live in a world of fake news and fake facts. Wiki isn't the best source.

[@mikb5587]

Really, Wikipedia in 2022 is a skip fire edited by twenty people with agendas. I'd be embarrassed to cite from it.

[@samn6498]

@@DW-dd4iw wiki can be written and edited by literally anyone with an account.

[@whitetroutchannel]

80 million litres lost from leaking pipes, sort that first thatll help id imagine

[@liamisic911]

There is that word again "unprecedented"

[@Kitingaful]

Stop pushing nonsense, we used to have heatwaves and droughts all the time in the summer when I was a kid in the 80s. Nothing new

[@Dion_Mustard]

you're not getting the bigger picture..CLIMATE CHANGE.

[@truthiskey8625]

If you stopped all the water leaks you wouldn't have a water crisis like this

[@allclean2555]

The drought “could” last until October. 😂If I’m not putting on my raincoat well before then I will eat it.

[@nolaray1062]

It can still rain during a drought.

[@vhawk1951kl]

But it will not, It will rain soon enough as it did in 1976 which seems like yesterday to me. it is simply that the northern European monsoon is a bit late, but these things happen, weather is unpredictable, and always changing

[@queenbean7071]

@@vhawk1951kl but weather is also affected by climate change

[@vhawk1951kl]

@@queenbean7071 If you please; define climate,: is it a trend over one decade, century, or millennium? For what sized region is it defined ? : is it a trend over one decade, century, or millennium? For what sized region is it defined ? immigration both legal and illegal runs rampant. In so far as anything whatsoever can be ascertained about the fantasy that is called the past, there has never been a time when the climate (however defined) has not changed, moreover it must necessarily always change because the factors influencing it are themselves always changing

[@brandanwalton8623]

@@vhawk1951kl you wrote nonsense to sound smart. Current climate change is exacerbated by our impact on the earth at an extremely fast rate compared to years before. Every non sensical question you asked can be answered by google.

[@Pogo-A-Gogo]

The fields they are showing are harvested wheat fields. As the wheat has died the stalks go brown, they get harvested later as hay for horses through the winter. It has nothing to do with a drought! Too many city dwellers trying to scaremonger the other city dwellers.

[@thejellies5192]

Not great news for horses though if their hay is burning. 😔

[@frederickwelham3829]

Hay is made from grass, not wheat.

[@eh1702]

You can clearly see the heads if grain in the end stills.

[@eh1702]

At 3:00 those are not harvested fields. If they were, you would clearly see the soil between the furrows. The heads are heavy with grain - as the end photo shows.

[@whitetroutchannel]

to be fair the heads on the wheat and barley ive seen this year have been pathetic, just an observation

[@anthonykeane4984]

The annual average rainfall barely changes in the uk . What has changed is dramatically increased population especially in the south east . Demand has increased while the system has remained the same

[@MrBoggins1234]

@PGH Engineer true, but we could have built reservoirs, as UK did before water companies were privatised.... Population up by 10million in my lifetime, not just SE. I used to live in Sussex.

[@anthonykeane4984]

@@MrBoggins1234 i was having a pop at climate alarmists . But yes your point is valid i believe its 30 years since any new reservoirs have been built . That will make the issue worse

[@paulb9769]

You have to be kept in fear that the planet is dying.

[@quillo2747]

@@MrBoggins1234 not many places to build reservoirs in the south east. They are all on ground water. That 10 million, more like 15, is purely immigration. Close the borders, stop the demand increase

[@Unwanted_truth_]

@@paulb9769 Climate denial, wow. What is your iq?

[@pauljones8218]

im sneaking out late tonight to hosepipe my garden seeing the hose pipe ban is on got to save my veggies before they die hope i dont get caught out wish me luck coz cant afford the fine but cant lose all my veggies it will be such a waste heart breaking i got crazy big veggie garden on the go this year

[@TheTrickshot77]

Get a watering can

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Get a water butt. Use grey water. Don't use a fucking hosepipe you complete knobber.

[@SirHargreeves]

I think we all support watering food. Just don’t wash your car or water the flowers.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

@@SirHargreeves Yeah... no we don't. I support irrigating farms though even they are currently using their reserve water supplies collected from rain water at the moment. I don't support a fool watering his plants with non-grey water.

[@kevtheargonut]

Get an electric water pump. Put a big bucket under the tap and leave the tap running into it. Drop the infeed into the bucket and connect your hose to the pump outfeed. Water away to your heart’s content, they cannot touch you as the hose is not connected to the water services.

[@raykenley]

Britain lost almost 93% of its forest and wetland in just 200 years. Now returning some of the land to beavers to create wetland help to stabilize ecosystem and tackle extreme weather in the near future.

[@visionentertainment8006]

Thanks to the pasty boys

[@vhawk1951kl]

Who talk you Britain lost almost 93% of its forest and wetland in just 200 years," and why do you believe them?

[@stephnewman1357]

Building lots of new houses near me and the old reservoir that fed all the local villages is now a country park! So where’s the new reservoirs for all these new houses and yet we wonder why there’s shortages! The lakes are full around me in Northamptonshire too, none have dried up. We’ve had dust devils since I was a child in the 70’s too. People throw cigarettes, glass bottles, use disposable bbqs and some people start fires deliberately.

[@EliteRock]

Back when the Thatcher regime was enthusiastically flogging off every last part of the UK's infrastructure it could lay its hands on, it was referred to as "privatisation" (or praivitisation is she called it). Actually the antithesis of national ownership is *international* ownership. I've always wondered if Thatcher was too dim too realise this, or if she just didn't care.

[@chrisnewill]

Since 1995 the UK population has increased by 3 million (18%). How many new reservoirs have been built to address this? Zero! The government are supposed to be building 300,000 new homes per year, what are the water companies doing to address this? Zero! Yorkshire Water CEO has been paid £5.9 million over the last 5 years for doing what?

[@vhawk1951kl]

Who told you that" the UK population has increased by 3 million (18%), and why do you believe them? Men(human beings) are not exactly unknown to lie, be mistake, and to invent and contrive statistics, but they are famous for being as credulous as imbecile children and to believing what they*want* to believe.

[@heuvelke1065]

200.000 immigrants each year since the last decade.

[@vhawk1951kl]

@@heuvelke1065 Who told you that and why do you believe them or did you count them yourself?

[@warrenbooth2103]

Same discussion in 1976 .

[@7pinky791]

Most British people are not aware that over 70% of Water Companies are owned by foreign companies and individuals, they have been milking the system for decades, what can possibly go wrong?

[@daz657]

There’s a clear north south divide here when it comes to drought and for the first time ever, the north is winning.

[@penderyn8794]

Farmers are obsessed with extremely efficient drainage pipes and ditches.....but you can't say anything....might offend them

[@hedydd2]

@@penderyn8794 Efficient drainage has zero effect on soil drought. Soil type and its ‘field capacity’ which is the ability of the soil structure to hold water, which has nothing to do with drains, is what matters. Drains stop running almost universally literally months before any drought.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

@@penderyn8794 tell me you know nothing about agronomy, without telling me you know nothing about agronomy.

[@dubiouscaesar3709]

And it usually works the other way during floods, there are exceptions like Somerset levels etc.

[@tomg3131]

the north gets more rainfall but has way more reservoirs and natural lakes

[@CragScrambler]

Meanwhile in the lakes district weve loads of water, it literally falls from the sky on a daily basis.

[@glyph241]

Did they pass a pro-rain law in the lakes district? ☔️🕳☔️

[@penderyn8794]

National park banned overly efficient drainage by farmers there....also helps slow water flow

[@penderyn8794]

@@glyph241 being mountains by the sea helps

[@hedydd2]

@@penderyn8794 Not relevant in Summer. Unless there is actually a spring, drains stop flowing as soon as the capacity of the soil to hold it reaches equilibrium. Springs do their thing regardless of drainage and the purpose of a drain for a spring [of which there are many but not all flow all summer, though some do] is to isolate and navigate the water to a water course and eventually a river. Rivers are dependent on spring water in summer, not water from field drains unless it is sourced from an inland spring.

[@MsVanorak]

lots of hills and trees

[@Ken_from_Mumbai]

This is definitely the work of Putin and the Ukraine war. How brave of Uk

[@johnruby147]

Funny but the then Govenment said exactly the same thing back in 1976 , It's called weather , in 2007 we had a wet summer and people moaned , now were having a hot dry Summer and people are still moaning

[@julianshepherd2038]

Weather is an event. Climate is a trend.

[@eh1702]

They didn’t say any such thing. I was a young adult then, and I call your lie. Not only that, the entire northern hemisphere is affected by this. And Arctic ice thousands of years old has melted, more this summer than for many, many centuries.

[@kerryfry1857]

Weather is localised. So a heat wave in 1976, which i remember, is normal. The planet has a heated up. Over a degree. This is bad, like really, really bad. The more carbon in the atmosphere. The more it traps heat. Like a greenhouse. Systems are breaking down, slowly. But if it's allowed to continue. Organised humanity can't exist. I'm 53. So hopefully I'll be dead, long before the world collapses. But if you have children and grandchildren. Their lives well be fucked. Short-termism is humans down fall. Oh well! There's loads of people that think like you. Enjoy your existence. Keep buying the daily mail, express, sun, telegraph. They have your interests at heart. Oh, their billionaire controlled. What do you think? If you can think for yourself?

[@Deeps__]

Jesus Christ! We had them every summer in the 80s and 90s. Summers were much longer back then and I remember the whole summer holidays being hot non stop for the 6 weeks and more. Everyday we would go down to the wye to swim.

[@contentedbuddha]

Do you remember swimming in a dry riverbed?

[@hedydd2]

Yes and I’ve also seen cold and wet summers aplenty with an ‘Indian summer’ of nice hot weather for two weeks after school starts. Oh dear this weather is so variable from one year to the next. Each decade, no matter where you start and end it, is also different from the one before. Every year there is a record or three broken, whether its the hottest two days in July on record or the wettest June on record or the worse hail and wind on record on any particular day since 194*, pick a year.

[@Deeps__]

@@hedydd2 exactly. It’s not doom because we get dry, hot summers or cold, snowy winters.

[@ianhigson719]

What happens when you fill in all the reservoirs and build houses on them and therefore increase the demand for water? We also could do with population control as we would be able to sustain ourselves alot better.

[@Wastelander2281]

Dude. Do you know what you just said? Why don't you go and make friends with Hitler wannabes if that's how you feel?!?!

[@Matrix66014]

Very true. Buildings are under construction almost everywhere. And let’s not forget that the government already knows that our population is a huge threat to livelihood and supply of resources. Why do you think the government are forcing vaccines on us when the side effects are clearly not just side effects?

[@dean-gm1lg]

Spot on , but no one wants to confront the real causes

[@heuvelke1065]

Population control? You mean all the immigrants swarming England? Both european and non european who go here and have no care for your precious water. They will help make the population shoot through the roof. Good luck.

[@thescarlettbandit5542]

NOW, can we sort our riverways out, clean them up, and stop sewage leaks in to them. Water cleanliness should be a top priority for our country.

[@samn6498]

Conservatives don't care

[@cleebe823]

Nah, instead we can redirect the sewage contaminated water into our drinking supply now that there's a drought - in fact there's never been a better time with all the polio in London's

[@hedydd2]

There are a few imperatives that should be top priority for every government. They are security of water, food, energy and shelter, along with bio and military security. THESE are absolute imperatives that are forgotten regularly through history and have to be re-learned time and time again after one or more have been neglected for long enough. Look at the panic about energy supplies and cost currently! The availability of water and cost and availability of food as we move towards next year, when the cost of the food and energy shortage will cause much social suffering. Forget any ‘green’ agenda. That is for the affluent middle classes to ponder while they cut down on their champagne and caviar. Most others will be too busy worrying how to pay the electricity, fuel and food bills.

[@quillo2747]

@@samn6498 Conservation is conservative, conservatives care, the Conservative party and or labour, the establishment in general, does not

[@quillo2747]

@@hedydd2 the main issue with that is you are mentioning everying supply side and nothing demand side. We wouldn't have any water shortages if it wasn't for population increasing demand, that population increase is 15 million immigrants in the last 30 years and growing

[@b3108]

I’m watching this interview with the firey and, as an Aussie who was a little kid when the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 - I repeat, 1983 - I am shaking my head at the lack of bushifre preparedness across the board in England, in *2022*.

[@SiCrewe]

When there's droughts in summer and mass-flooding in winter, somebody's not doing their job.

[@peterhoulihan9766]

Or rather they're doing their job, they just don't work for you anymore.

[@winzfeld1]

You still get drought with mass flooding. The flooding is partly caused by hard ground from drought causing run off. Under ground water levels have been dropping for decades, it’s a serious issue currently in Germany.

[@SiCrewe]

@@winzfeld1 And should we just wail about "climate change" while this happens or should we, y'know, expect local authorities and water companies to invest in whatever is required to prevent this happening and collect the water in a safe and controlled manner? Right now, it seems like the water companies just watch flooding happen, shrug their shoulders and think "Ah well, soner or later we'll be able to sell this flood-water to people, after it's finished wrecking people's property and made it's own way into a reservoir" and that's rather halfassed.

[@thejellies5192]

I remember going through droughts and hosepipe bans in the 80’s in the South of the UK. But we’ve had decades of cooler and wetter summers since. What if this is just a typical cycle? Records haven’t been held for enough years to find out how bad droughts have been before this with regards to how bad water levels must be to incite hosepipe ban type conditions. EDIT: this is a genuine question or query, not a criticism.

[@TheRen0gade]

Records have been kept since the Victorian era, but I am sure that you've figured out something all of the scientists have missed.

[@julianshepherd2038]

The privatised industry does not spend on leakages. Up to 1/4 of the water is lost that way.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Literally centuries of records

[@bhew7409]

Core samples of trees can go back further than even the victoria era even. We have it pretty good here in the UK, mainland Europe is in its worst drought in 500 years. It would be nice if we were in a typical cycle but the numbers in the science say otherwise. It's easier to ignore it but its still happening.

[@eh1702]

“What if this is just a typical cycle?” It isn’t. I remember it too. It was just bits of the southern third of the UK. This is most of the northern hemisphere. And it is destroying crops, degrading the soil and (helped by reckless privateers) killing rivers.

[@swift9431]

Just build more reservoirs instead of housing estates it does rain alot here.

[@SirHargreeves]

Or deport those the housing estates are for.

[@apemoon1731]

The fear mongering continues. Maybe the utility companies just need to start investing more in infrastructure and paying less in dividends? If you can't supply water in a country like the UK, you're not really trying.

[@philipknowles2912]

Will drought become normal? A ridiculous question after a rare dry Summer. That said, water should never have been privatised. It was warned at the time that profits would come before investment in infrastructure and so it has happened, with senior staff treating themselves to huge, unjustified salaries and shareholders being prioritised over consumers. One of the wettest climates on Earth and we come to this after a few weeks dry weather. Disgraceful.

[@TWF17069]

well said😂😂 1976, 2003, 2006 and 2018 were all hot dry summers but now all of a sudden we get these scaremongering headlines on the news its pathetic

[@roger-sl4jh]

Stop cloud seeding and it will stop ✋

[@nopretribrapture2318]

Please close the car washes PLEASE 😭

[@Handsdown83]

But my car will get dirty, ill have to drive further to where theres no hosepipe bans to get it cleaned.

[@Dion_Mustard]

and the swimming pools..and the hotels..etc etc all these use GARGANTUAN amounts of water every every day.

[@nopretribrapture2318]

@@Handsdown83 im partially disabled with health problems and also have a van, if i can wipe it down with a spray solution and a cloth,or old towel,then you can too!

[@my_carp_life3424]

The amount of water wasted by leaks in the streets is a joke and needs to be sorted by telling us to reduce water intake

[@gmseed1908]

UK - The country in which UKGov recently shut down desalination plants that would have helped provide fresh water supplies in such times. It's laughable how an island can ever have a water shortage. It sums up the lack of vision of the UK government. Then again they are too busy propping up the Africa infrastrcture with £15billion/year (£476/second) in Foriegn Aid.

[@jeffreyroberts7438]

In 1976, the last time we had consistent sunny weather like now, we all just enjoyed the sunshine! No talk of global warming, no hysteria driven by the media! Same things happened,reservoir levels went down significantly and I remember stop taps being put in streets to provide water. It’s funny how times, media driven panic and peoples perception has changed in those years! At the moment we live in west Wales, it rains probably 300 of the 365 days of the year! So this summer is a big exception. Mass paranoia seems to be the norm now! And it’s driven by groups with an agenda! …………….we had floods not that long ago!

[@Unwanted_truth_]

What is your iq? I bet you can count it on one hand and I bet it's 7

[@martinrolf2606]

What a load of rubbish

[@alunjones3860]

We do seem, to go through phases of dry and wet summers. Anyone remember the washout summers of 2007 and 2012? The summers between those were also wetter than average. Starting in 1989 and into the early 90s we also had some dry summers.

[@hedydd2]

Yes, anyone under 25 years of age will not have experienced a nice summer like this before and may be alarmed by hosepipe bans which were commonplace during the last half of the 20thC if not the first half [when mains water systems were not available in all areas].

[@nopretribrapture2318]

@@hedydd2 it's also a good idea to research cloud seeding and geoenginering weather modifications that's been going on for many years,way back 1940's/50's , i think that has alot to do with climate chaos too!

[@hedydd2]

@@nopretribrapture2318 Oh lord preserve us!!

[@andresmontana4466]

@@hedydd2 Before you speak critically of things you know nothing about, it'd be wise to educate yourself. Cloud seeding is a thing; as is geoengineering. We can 3d print blood cells, grow ears on mice, write on atoms; is it such a stretch? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bni0couuos6Gms0

[@tomg3131]

remember the 2007 floods and the summers around that time were wet, windy and grey. they blamed that on climate change as well. now we are having a proper summer they blame it on that too. just agenda pushing.

[@samg1879]

Worst drought in 500 years? So they produced the same amount of CO2 back then?

[@alanhall2795]

supermarkets are now rationing water sales: so no need to panic

[@kerryfry1857]

Nationalise our amenities. Put any profits back into the infrastructure, *not* shareholders.

[@jontitor1726]

Amazing how cloud seeding is denying the UK rain

[@DrAahad-xo6ev]

Same was happened in 2021 monsoon failure and mid summer, autumn, winter even spring was elevated and drought early kharif season was experienced, but drought was compensated by the zuljilal wal ikraam. Rehman karim now extended monsoon rains are underway in Hyd, sindh.

[@Cd5ssmffan]

what

[@jasonuren3479]

So, we Don't have a plan for the next 5-10 years. Is there any plan to make a plan? I'm not holding my breath

[@pauljones8218]

nor me ive been out in my garden all summer trying out some rain dancing and not a single drop god knows how the red indians done it i think im chanting loud enough coz loads peps round here are shouting for me to shut the f--- up oh well might rain on monday so the forcast says

[@EIRE55]

@@pauljones8218 😄😆😂

[@liamisic911]

why don't we store water when the weather isn't hot to prepare for times like this

[@miamitten1123]

Water evaporates.

[@liamisic911]

@@miamitten1123only if it is stored out in the open? Does a bottle of water evaporate.

[@liamisic911]

@@miamitten1123 like if they had huge tankers of water say stored under ground this honestly wouldn’t be a problem.

[@ruairievans]

Why don't you improve your grammar? You add capital letters at the beginning of a sentence and full stops at the end.

[@julezpanda14]

Hmmm how much of our water and storage did Tory's sell 🤔

[@SirHargreeves]

You can’t extrapolate a trend based on one data point. This is clearly an above average summer, so I expect there to be mean reversion as soon as next year. I suggest you calm down.

[@samanthahardy9903]

Makes me wonder where all the bottled water comes from?

[@VuyoH]

Sustainability is something all businesses are talking about nowadays. How is it water companies are not being questioned or held to account for not having any plans in place? Water is THE essential service/ resource. So much money going to bonuses instead of updating systems and infrastructure, stress testing and putting major incident plans in place. The fire service are doing a great job 💚❤️ but this is deflecting from the real issue.

[@carlocristiani9529]

..and look how misleading they are: if you hit 'like' it gets counted.., if you it 'dislike' a banner appears that says: ''feedback shared with the creator '' but it looks like nobody dislike it as it doesn't get counted on the thumbs down icon...they need to keep the narrative going and are lying to people and it's in plain sight

[@jimcazador6057]

No, its summer, this one is particularly hot and dry, in my 56 years on this planet I can attest that summers are hot, winters are cold and they fluctuate in between. The summer of 1986 I believe it drizzled from June to September, I worked in it as was drenched every day. It rains virtually all winter, autumn and spring in the UK and if only the water companies could 'Capture' that rain before it runs into the sea would be a big help, but not in the UK , that would be too obvious and simple.

[@dave3130]

Why not build more reservoirs ?! Problem solved , you're welcome.

[@tiredmummy7512]

A couple of weeks ago a grass/field fire got very close to my nephews flat in brigg, north lincolnshire. We're not far from where the record temperature was reached... it's a real problem. People need to be careful.

[@damianbylightning6823]

Careful not live in Licolnshire - you may end up fucking your sister or all your cousins.

[@vhawk1951kl]

All this talk of so-called "record temperatures", is simply lying; you can invent any statistic you please if you can be perfectly certain that no one can contradict you. In fact 76.437% of all statistics are simply lies or mistaken contrived, or simply wrong.

[@TWF17069]

lol

[@granulesackes4354]

and earth rotation around the sun doesn't matter

[@earthman6700]

Nationalise the Water Companies.

[@SubjectiveFunny]

Water rates are about to go up 50% as well. Get ready people.

[@badninja1971]

Perhaps we can get Ethiopia to get Geldoff to put a concert on for us Brits. After all they boomed after we did the same for them. 😂

[@julianshepherd2038]

They had a war at the time. They were used to a monsoonal climate but if someone burns down your village, you don't have anything left for the bad years. I think Liz Truss wants a a war against the woke but she seems vague on the exact nature of woke.

[@ziggywiggy3650]

Just another reason to raise the price of water bills

[@paulb9769]

There was an article in the mail that said meat and beer prices are going to go up because of it. Coincidental not.

[@EIRE55]

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (1974 Video Sound HQ - KZbin) kzbin.info/www/bejne/apTMkpKsadurnKc

[@smifff63]

No knew reservoir’s built for 40yrs and population has grown over last 40yrs

[@christophirelad9636]

Don't forget people it's raining all next week 🤣😅

[@xelthiavice4276]

summer is hot and dry. more news at 8

[@confusiyeon8265]

Who would’ve thought the uk would end up in a drought

[@stephensnell5707]

You need to realise droughts are unusual in the UK

[@ScottishRoss27]

*England

[@dazo69]

'Who would’ve thought the uk would end up in a drought' - Anybody who has watched Britain closing reservoirs and selling them off for the last 30 odd years

[@PatrickMapper]

@@ScottishRoss27 it’s still uk shush

[@Handsdown83]

@@dazo69 your right, its not like it rained for about 6 months before the summer started.

[@birchthebirch4593]

That's a wee bit alarmist isn't it news people ? Heat waves in 1974, 75, 77, 78, 83, 84, 88, 90, 91, 92 and so on and so on and so on ...stop scaring people guys , it's like you're doing it just for the sake of it , it's some hot weather , get over yourselves.

[@lindahalfpenny3258]

Try fixing the leaks, use some of the huge profits to repair all the leaks and invest in better ways to store water. This country has more rain than sun, so what are the water companies doing to collect and preserve water supplies.

[@SwissCheese112]

okay but..the water goes somewhere, it does disappear. it gets dispersed somewhere else. and the water on the ocean gets evaporated and diapered as fresh water somewhere else. in my part of canada we have had an exceptionally wet and cool summer. but last year it was dry while the uk wasnt under drought

[@carlocristiani9529]

Exactly mate, they are talking like the world will tun into a wasteland while the water can't go anywhere else than Earth itself. If there is a 100% of water there will still be a 100% of water even if it will distribute differently on the planet.

[@eh1702]

In fact the uptake of vapour from the ocean can be affected. And what use to us is fresh rain falling in more ocean? And more Arctic ice has vanished this year than ever recorded: ice thiusands of years old is gone.

[@brethren4life152]

fear fear fear, thruth is we have had droughts every year as long as I can remember, some worse than others, the bigger issue is water supply companies not fixing their leaks, they are taking the profit and not reinvesting in the infrastructure (new pipes) so the system is becoming degraded quicker than it is being maintained. greed.

[@jamessmith84240]

Rather than complaining, how about building some modern water storage solutions? Britain's winters are famous for being wet. Get saving it instead of waiting for the sun to come out for 3 weeks and drying it all up. I just checked and we have not built a reservoir in this country since 1992. The population has grown by 10 million since then. Get cracking!

[@canadianpsychologist]

Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News should be condemned for her poor interviewing on Jan 16, 2018.

[@leifcian4288]

Very simple grey water system I've been using for a few years as a matter of course with just a few buckets and sink bowls/tubs, no adaptation to home required. Comfortably reduces water use in half or more. Would be a bit tricky if you only had a shower basin and no bath tub though.. Just the habit of moving dish and rinse water through from the kitchen sink into the bathroom, also after having a shower I scoop water up from the bath tub into a main bucket. Not too much hassle really just a matter of habit and keeps the bath tub clean. That way I've usually always got a bucket of reasonably clean grey water there to wash my boots or bike tires ect if needed which is always handy and will use to flush toilet when required. I only use about 40 liters of water a day so could use a fair bit more and still be well within reason.

[@buggbear]

It’s only a few weeks in the summer it’s this hot,more doom and gloom…

[@paulmitchell5349]

Wrong. This drought is about lack of water over months, not a few weeks. You going to tell me it will rain heavily this winter ?

[@julianshepherd2038]

You aren't a farmer

[@miamitten1123]

It’s been sunny ☀️ since March/spring time.

[@conscious3714]

Drought declared, and who is responsible for this disaster, man or nature?

[@MohamedAli-ks5qy]

when the rain is falling ,they say the country is drowning , when the rain is gone they say the country is in drought

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Hey! You just talk about yourself.

[@DodgeCity111]

I filled my outdoor pool up today and watered the garden 3 times

[@julianshepherd2038]

Of course you did.

[@TheTrickshot77]

The Joys of living on a council estate

[@DodgeCity111]

@@TheTrickshot77 😂😂😂

[@stephenhoskins1532]

We have had heath fires very year in Dorset since I was a boy and im 65 . Call me stupid but I think thats what keeps it heathland not scrub or woodland

[@julianshepherd2038]

Have the fires gotten more frequent and/or bigger. I live in the north of Scotland and snow is in much smaller quantities with the big mountain near me having four months snow not seven it would have had forty years ago.

[@gemmag.2988]

Why is this when it rains 9 months of the year? Are the water companies not doing a good job?

[@malcolmturner214]

What happened to our underground reservoirs and underground water tables 🤷‍♂️

[@PumpinggainzNartistic]

Or just summer hmmm same weather you get on holidays ha?

[@andy-incognito]

People have forgotten the 90s and 2000s it was normal then to have this weather. Maybe not 40c but long summers was always a thing.

[@bepitan]

i recall the weather going way back... building snowmen every winter and nice summers, sure there were exceptions but anyone can see the overall trend, you are kidding yourself to think otherwise.

[@HH-hd7nd]

Not like this. Don't try to tell people that this was normal because it was not. This is the worst drought in over 500 years - and unlike back then in the 16th century it is unlikely that the climate conditions will revert back to cooler temperatures because the temperatures are increasing globally.

[@andy-incognito]

@@HH-hd7nd I’m in the centre on the country and we don’t even have a hosepipe ban. As I said no doubt it’s getting hotter never had 40c since records have been kept. But long summers and drought were always a problem when I was a kid.

[@eren1707]

Sorry but we constantly have flood warnings every year especially in Yorkshire where I live… we haven’t built a fucking reservoir in this country since 1991 and I was born in 1993… the newest reservoir we have is older than me! Our country has miserable wet weather for most of the year, it’s actually well known for it… yet they’re going to blame you the public. Just wait, there’ll be another “environmental drought tax” a new hosepipe ban, a mandatory shower limit, they’re trying to control you not help you.

[@nickcastings1568]

If any water company imposes a hose pipe ban they should be forced to stop charging any water rates, unless they have NO leaking pipes of their own!

[@Steven_Rowe]

Welcome to my world, AUSTRALIA, I came here from rainy freezing cold England 50years ago. It's scary to thing what we have done to the planet. I learnt in Junior school that we breathe air that is 20% Oxygen and we breathe out C02, we don't runout because trees breathe C02 and breathe out oxygen. Well some 30 years later I learnt about greenhouse gases and that was around 1987. Well need have more people consuming things and giving off C02 and at the same time in the name of progress and money we are ripping down the lungs of the earth, you don't need to be clever to work out we have changed the natural balance. Sadly sustainable and renewables I don't think is the answer, in producing sustainable stuff we are creating huge amounts of C02, we live n a very wasteful world of throw away. As a boy growing up in London a question came up on TV about what Britain would be like if it became a US state. Well I was talking to dad about how great it would be with big cars, soda pop pizza burgers all the consumer items a boy could want like air guns or fire arms musical instrument and oversea holidays Dad read an article that said the world could not sustain the lifestyle of the US, now in the West we all want EVERYTHING and more. Back when I came to Australia I found the summers savage , some people had single room air conditioners which were great, it was just a box that stuck out the window. Now it's about mansions and fully ducted air conditioning. Won't be long before in the UK it will be the same were really just compounding the problem. Were all to blame all of us. I don't know if there is an answer , can we go back??? I find it scary I really do.

[@missingo3594]

I've noticed how the english people that peppered on scots to go independent have fallen silent since they found out 80% of englands water will come from scotland haha!

[@missingo3594]

@PGH Engineer uh reeeee tard if you're going to waste my time on your brain farts get it right, you don't know what you're talking about, don't reply either, go play a videogame kid

[@wabbadabdab5473]

Shouldn’t bring more people into the country if we don’t have enough water for the people that are already here!

[@voiceguy554]

"Let's not talk ourselves into a drought now...."