Hosepipe Ban For Hampshire
July 29, 2022
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Please Sir, Climate Change Ate My Homework!
Since 1836, there have been a total of twenty years with less than 240mm in the first half year, many of these much drier than this year. In other words, a once every decade phenomenon on average. Moreover, dry years used to be much more common in the distant past:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
Instead of blaming the weather, maybe Southern Water should address the lack of storage and leaks.
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You are ‘spot on the money’ with regard to the significance of this drought. The Met Office publishes monthly ‘Hydrological Summaries’ for the UK. The latest one for June is at: https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/HS_202206.pdf … Page 2 even summaries the ‘return periods’ for the different rainfalls in different parts of the country and looking through most of these return periods (for the rainfall March -June 2022 at least) are between 2-5 years, 5-10 years or 8-12 years. Out of 23 regions of the country (drainage areas) only 5 have a rainfall that meets the 10-15 or 10-20 year return period and only one (Wales) where it is a 15-25 year period. This is the Met Office’s own data. What I now find very deeply disturbing is that the Met Office aids and abets the media in ignoring its own data and seems to support scare stories that its own data does not support. Your this is a ‘once in a decade’ drought conclusion is correct – the Met office data show this
When was the last time any British water authority commissioned a new reservoir?
How many million has the population increased – mainly due to immigration – since?
Look across the pond to Kalif hornia where the Kalif wannabe Newsome has been vetoing water management projects already sanctioned. California has significant infra structure problems which are wasting a lot of water. He is telling farmers not to irrigate which means less crops. It disturbs me to say it but I see a deliberate plan being implemented.
wot catweazle666 said….
I recall a poster here told how the IOW was filling in/had filled in its reservoirs and got its water through a pipeline from the mainland. That’s progress. I just wonder if some IoW counsellor has done well with the house-building on the old reservoirs….
Alton Water in 1987 but in 2013 the capacity increase at Abberton nr Colchester was achieved — all in the dry East. See also Farmoor nr. Oxford, Rutland Water nr. Stamford, Bewl water nr. Tunbridge Wells, Draycote nr. Rugby and Ardleigh nr Colchester all completed in the 1970s.
It will make NO difference because there is nothing that needs changing. Also it is a corrupt package of buyoffs for Blue States and the Left’s favourite causes.
Sorry guys, somehow I was in the post about Bidens latest slush fund to his buddies and my post appeared here
But it’s just so much easier blaming climate change/crisis/collapse than actually fixing leaks or building reservoirs. Climate change, the bureaucrat’s perpetual get out of jail free card.
Sadly very true but also dangerously so in many cases. The day after the Whaley Bridge dam nearly collapsed the (former diplomat) head of the EA blamed it on climate change, playing the get out jail free card. A year later the detailed engineering report proved it was down to (potentially criminal) negligence of essential maintenance that had been previously identified.
“Overall, I have determined that the most likely cause of the failure of the auxiliary spillway
at Toddbrook Reservoir on the 1 August 2019 was its poor design, exacerbated by
intermittent maintenance over the years which would have caused the spillway to
deteriorate. ”
Click to access toddbrook-reservoir-independent-review-reporta.pdf
So Sweet FA to do with climate change.
Yep 2 inches of rain in 24 hours, a previous posting explained that they got 4 inches in the 1800’s. More ignorant CC tosh.
No new “major public water supply reservoirs” constructed in the UK for over 30 years, There is a lesson there somewhere.
A spokesman said: “Anglian Water is currently developing proposals for two new reservoirs – one in the Fens and another in Lincolnshire.
“Southern water are only now going ahead with with building one in Havant, Hampshire”
In the fens? Interesting to see what its capacity by volume will be.
For Hampshire, there is very little use of reservoirs. That’s simply because the water supply is largely based on chalk aquifers and the rivers flowing from them. The aquifers are a kind of underground reservoir.
In the large areas of the county on the chalk, it is also hard to build reservoirs due to the porous nature of the chalk.
In recent times, there has been pressure to reduce abstraction from the aquifers due to its impact on the flow rates of the rivers – I suspect that this is one of the factors leading to earlier imposition of restrictions.