[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:15 pm  

looks like i picked the wrong week to open up a colonic irrigation shop.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:32 pm  

Its easy to criticise but the reason we are in this position is because the Labour government spectacularly failed to store water during the wet years, which is why now we all have to suffer when the sun comes out.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:41 pm  

Lefty wrote:

...from Friday.

Crazy weather over the last year. Obviously having lots of snow during the winter doesn't help at all if you have a few dry months.

Is this confirmed anywhere?

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:51 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Its easy to criticise but the reason we are in this position is because the Labour government spectacularly failed to store water during the wet years, which is why now we all have to suffer when the sun comes out.

How can this be? I thought global warming was invented in 1997?

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:57 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Its easy to criticise but the reason we are in this position is because the Labour government spectacularly failed to store water during the wet years, which is why now we all have to suffer when the sun comes out.

Rubbish,

Firstly the north west has a lack of aquifers (natural underground stores of water) and lots of reservoirs this means water in wet months cant be stored very well as they have small capacities and evaporation is high in the summer months.

There is a long history of drought before 'new labour' came to power just lookup 1976 summer for an example

This country needs to learn how to aquire and store water more effectively, country's like Italy, Greece, Morrocco and Turkey dont have these problems even though they recieve hardly any rainfall in summer and have extended dry periods that can last 6 months

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:10 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

Its easy to criticise but the reason we are in this position is because the Labour government spectacularly failed to store water during the wet years, which is why now we all have to suffer when the sun comes out.

LOL and the conservatives said we didnt fix the roof when the sun was shining. I'm confused.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:33 pm  

Don't know if you noticed that the population went past 60 million a year back. Since then, another 750 000 have come and is on its way towards 70 million by 2025.

All those extra people use water, electricity, land, roads, hospital beds, school places, etc etc. We only have a few upland areas to gatehr out water reserves.

So much for labour's open door mass immigration policy.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:48 pm  

shambawangy wrote:

There is a long history of drought before 'new labour' came to power just lookup 1976 summer for an example

Who was in government in 1976?

Wasn't that the year we went for a loan from the IMF as well...?

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:07 pm  

Brilliant! Lack of water blamed on immigration!

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:21 pm  

I think that the 'hose pipe ban enforcement officer' posts have suffered redundancies due to public spending cuts.