The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

"Stuart Noble" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:

"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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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. The usual excuse is that rain doesn't help
them much because it just runs away and doesn't actually get into
the underground water table. Maybe if it rained underground more
instead of above it?

In the SE? Sooner rather than later as you lack storage for the
water and have too many people.

There is an extremely large reservoir located underground in
SELondon. Driven over it many times and never knew it was there.

How many days worth of water?

According to Thames Water...

"Honor Oak Reservoir is Europe’s largest underground reservoir,
beneath Peckham Golf Course. It holds enough water for 1 million people."

i.e. quite a lot :-)

For 1 million people to do *what*? make a cup of tea?

Don't get all technical. A million is such a nice comforting figure :-)