The Uk Could Run Out Of Water In 20 Years?

[upnortheast]

How come somewhere like Tenerife with a tiny land area & an annual rainfall of 11" has no water probs, & the UK has a few dry days & the water companies start talking about drought

 

[kiwi pom]

spot on...we need a national water network moving water north south and generating hydro electric and fert as it moves.....what do whitehall numpties want..nuclear

Nuclear power is absolutely the way forward for the foreseeable future until renewables and grid storage can keep up with demand.
As for water, lakes, dams, canals and hydroelectric plants take up rather a lot of space. I can see all the outraged threads on here as everyone rushes to get their land agents in order, when their farm is set to be turned into a lake or there's a huge canal going straight through it.
They could do it in China, just drown anyone that wont move and shoot anyone that asks for compensation. In the UK, not so much.

 

[Hindsight]

The South East and London are some of the most water-stressed areas in the world. Discussions are going on at the moment about storing more water in Lake Vyrnwy by me to provide more water to London via the River Severn and Thames.

It's very early discussions but I imagine if the idea is brought forward its going to cause a very bumpy ride politically. Impacts in Rural, relatively less well off Mid Wales to benefit London!!

London and the South East provide the surplus taxation that provides for rural Mid Wales and LIncolnshire.

 

[glasshouse]

Instead of HS2 benefitting thousands of people with a rail link why not a pipeline from Wales to London benefitting millions ?

We can all pee in it

 

[glasshouse]

London and the South East provide the surplus taxation that provides for rural Mid Wales and LIncolnshire.

Not now

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Nuclear power is absolutely the way forward for the foreseeable future until renewables and grid storage can keep up with demand.
As for water, lakes, dams, canals and hydroelectric plants take up rather a lot of space. I can see all the outraged threads on here as everyone rushes to get their land agents in order, when their farm is set to be turned into a lake or there's a huge canal going straight through it.
They could do it in China, just drown anyone that wont move and shoot anyone that asks for compensation. In the UK, not so much.

Say that to Ardern and Shaw!!!
Mind you with the PM being poorly, we should by sympathetic.....

 

[Bogweevil]

Rainwater capture systems - the proposal to require these for all new builds, especially in the South-East, was quickly killed off by the construction industry lobby.

 

[hendrebc]

@holwellcourtfarm

 

[Vader]

Rainwater capture systems - the proposal to require these for all new builds, especially in the South-East, was quickly killed off by the construction industry lobby.

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Same as all new builds should have ground source heat pumps and solar..

 

[Ffermer Bach]

It shouldn't be that difficult to move it around from high rainfall areas to the SE, if the will was there.... Being doing it with gas and oil for decades.

I think water is relatively expensive to move, the problem is the real growth areas of the UK are also the driest areas, we need to be building houses in the Wet uplands, not East Anglia, but that is not where people want to live.

First thing, we should start to limit water usage, as they do in the drier countries, then mend leaks too.

 

[Universe]

Water companies are on a par with fuel companies as the biggest rip off merchant around.

Charging people for something they get for free-all they have to do is provide the infrastructure .

Yet they can't even do that properly.

There's plenty of water. I'm sure that yrs ago it was stated that for every litre of water delivered, 9 litres was lost along the way...
Do you think that water company shareholders have taken a hit and improved all the leaky Victorian pipework? So obviously the only way out is to charge the users more so that we use less. Simples!

 

[teslacoils]

Same as all new builds should have ground source heat pumps and solar..

They should be plumbed for community heat and power. Cost at build phase is negligable.

 

[Paddington]

Our metered water bill last year was up by over 10% last year, so we suspected a leak. Turned the main stop cock off and the meter stopped, with meter on and supplies to sheds and field and all taps turned off, the meter was still going. Severn Trent came out, we had no damp patches anywhere, but because we had reported it we got a "warning notice of water wastage". We might have to dig up the supply pipe to the house. However after replacing a number of dripping tap washers, our next bill had gone back to normal. Shows the amount of water that can be lost by small things.

 

[Bogweevil]

Same as all new builds should have ground source heat pumps and solar..

Most dwellings have too little space, they should be built to the highest insulation standards.

 

[Vader]

Most dwellings have too little space, they should be built to the highest insulation standards.

Drill hole for heatpump slinky, hardly any space needed.
Scrap downstairs loo and got room for pump plus water tank for hot water so dont need combi boiler

 

[Y Fan Wen]

What do we want?
This that and the other!
Where do you want it?
Not near our houses.
How should we pay for it?
Tax someone that's not me.

Welsh Water plant plans at Merthyr opposed by residents

Homeowners with views of the Brecon Beacons are worried about the "frightening" environmental impact.

www.bbc.co.uk

"This isn't a nimby [not in my backyard] project because one of the other sites they originally chose was in a disused quarry, which is also in our area. So we're not against Welsh Water developing in our area, we just don't want it here."