Water firms ‘sold off reservoirs that could have eased drought’
Companies gave up sites for reserves without building new ones, says former head of Natural England
Old, small, reservoirs have indeed been sold off. And bastards like Natural England insist no new, large, ones can be built. The difficulty with old and small is old and small processing works – which are grossly inefficient.
And this is being blamed on the water companies? The fucking fuckers.
Also most reservoirs like that were too shallow.
Anyway it’s gonna start raining again soon, once this particular High has passed.
Running out of something you actually have plenty of is a communist speciality, a defining characteristic even.
Bring back Denis Howell!
jgh, I saw a comment on TalkTV that Howell was installed as ‘Minister for Drought’ and THREE days later the heavens opened.
Today, the blob tells us that global heating is causing drought in UK. Met Office website says “climate change has caused UK weather to be warmer and wetter”.
In five months the same blob but different faces will claim ‘we have to do something about global heating causing UK flooding.
@ Roue le Jour
It’s a Communist specialty but any bureaucracy without someone to kick their backsides (e.g. all our Quangos) are capable of it. Last week I was walking along the towpath and I met a barge-owner who told me that “the water had never been so low” and his boat “was on the bottom” (deck above water level – it hadn’t sunk). At the next lock but one, where water levels were near-normal, I encountered a guy from Canal & Rivers Trust so I relayed the information. He told that it was due to the lack of rain and they were trying to shift water “It’s a nightmare”.
But, BUT, I had already passed *three* weirs where water was flowing over them because there was more than enough water upstream and the recent lack of rain did NOT mean there wasn’t enough water- just that CRT management of flows had left that particular stretch nearly dried out while there was enough water both upstream and downstream.
The remedy for the behaviour of our civil servants and monopolists is machine-gunning. I hope we haven’t given all our ammo to Ukraine.
And this is being blamed on the water companies
And on the public who must ‘conserve’ water – ie we must not make use of it before it flows back to sea
No resevoirs built in England sinse 1973 despite pop increase of ~25m
Drought? Met Office figures show UK had more rain pa in 2011-2021 than 2001-2010
Trump for PM !