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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Dave Baker wrote:
It's been ****ing down for months and the worst floods in living
memory. What that tells me is that we're shortly due for hosepipe
bans and water restrictions given that the water authorities in this
country seem to be totally unable to provide for uninterrupted
supplies of the stuff in one of the wettest countries on earth.

Quite a few years ago I worked as a rep for Karcher & we had a hosepipe
ban in the south east, which caused a bit of a drop in sales.

I was talking to one of the German guys about this.

He said he knew Kent, it was bordered by the Thames estuary & the sea on
three sides and had a river running diagonally through it. He couldn't
understand how we could have a water shortage!

It is anticipated that, if water use continues to grow at the current
rate, the Ganges will run out of water before it reaches the sea within a
few decades. The Thames would not even make a decent tributary to the
Ganges.

Assuming the current rates of continental drift continue into the future
it'll be several hundred million years before the Thames could ever become a
tributary to the Ganges. However that's probably still not long enough for
the water authorities in this country to get their act together. Humans will
have mutated into 2 foot tall scaly reptilians with advanced ESP abilities
but hosepipe bans will still be, like death and taxes, one of those
invariables of life.
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Dave Baker - Puma Race Engines
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