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wrote:

While this water saving drive may be a serious matter in Aus and other
water-problem territories, in UK we have more water than we need,

Sadly this is not true. Indeed, paradoxicaly here in East Anglia we are
promised standpipes in the street this summer, together with significant
flooding in over-populated parts (eg where the gummint is forcing us to
build huge housing estates on known flood-plains). The (UK) problem is
largely water *management*, but we cannot just build ever-larger
reservoirs to get out of trouble. And as the globe heats up
precipitation patterns will change (and presumably more water will stay
in vapour form).

Should we conserve water? Yes, but not for the reasons often offered.

The only reason given was "water is declining". That's not an
unreasonable way of looking at it.

Douglas de Lacey