On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:26:08 +0100 someone who may be Andy Hall
wrote this:-

The problem is inadequate planning and provisioning. This is not a
demand issue.

Predict and provide. Very 1960s, but engineering has moved on a lot
since then.

There is also great
reluctance to building more reservoirs from the landscape lobby.

That's OK as long as it's in parts of the country such as Scotland
where there is plenty of space and it blends in anyway.

In this country, Scotland, the landscape lobby are very strong.
Together with certain sections of the civil service they stopped
hydro-electric schemes in favour of Longannet (I never have quite
understood why the landscape lobby didn't object as strongly to
Longannet). Perhaps that is because it is in a part of the country
they are not so concerned about.

Water saving shower heads and the like are one
option which involve minimal adaption.

These are pointless. A good shower involves the delivery of a good
supply of water, not a needle jet tiddly electric-like thing.

That is only one form of water saving shower head. There are others,
such as shower heads that only output water when squeezed.

Using rainwater for gardens
and washing cars is little more complicated.

Not really. It's entirely reasonable to water vegetables and fruits
at particular times.

It is a little more complicated in that one must arrange storage,
connect this to the downpipe and deal with the overflow.

Flushing toilets and
washing clothes with rainwater requires more thought, but can be
done.
Then there is full grey water recycling and composting
toilets.

These are largely nonsense.

Excellent.

It may be just about acceptable to flush
toilets with rain water provided that it could be suitably filtered and
cleaned up. It certainly isn't for clothes unless it can be properly
cleaned and purified.

All this can be done fairly easily.

It is more sensible to do this on an industrial scale.

The largest or second largest consumption of electricity in Scotland
is by Scottish Water. Thus for several reasons it makes sense to do
one's bit to reduce this.



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