On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:25:42 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:

Lieutenant Scott wrote
John Williamson wrote
Lieutenant Scott wrote
BartC wrote
Lieutenant Scott wrote



The UK is the 74th wettest country in the world, with on average
about half the rainfall of Australia. We even get less rain than Germany.

I find it hard to believe Australia is wetter than here.

It is anyway. Some places can get 15" of rain in one day.

The trouble here is it doesn't come at once, we get cloud days on end with a steady drizzle of water all the ****ing time.

So why are they running out in the South-east?

Incompetence.

Not entirely. The number of litres of rain falling *per person* in
the South East of England is about the same as it is in Israel.

http://www.bestcountryreports.com/Pr...%20Kingdom.php

http://www.bestcountryreports.com/Pr...Map_Israel.php

Both maps use the same colours for the same actual rainfall. The
South East of England is more densely populated than Israel, so the
bands for rainfall per person are one paler on Israel than they
would be in the UK.

The age of the water mains doesn't help, with the latest estimates
still showing about 20% of the water in London never getting to the
consumers' taps, but that's more due to lack of investment by the
government over the last five or six decades than the incomepetence
of the water boards.

Also most water does not go through dams. We must be using a very small proportion of the water that rains.

Thats true of almost everywhere.

There isnt any point in lots more dams when droughts are so rare.

It makes a lot more sense to just stop wasting the water when there is a drought instead.

Or have enough dams so we can use what we want and enjoy ourselves.

It's not to do with droughts at specific times. The news article said we'd had two winters without much rainfall in a row. So it's an accumulative effect.

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