I want my summer back.
2006-08-19 08:09:55 · 16 answers · asked by True Blue Brit 7 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
South east of England
2006-08-19 08:44:25 · update #1
Yes we are still having a water shortage in England, the reason being that the water companies were privatised and, like all ex-nationalised industries, the fat cats in charge "sweated the assets" i.e. made maximum profits for the shareholders and put very little into investment.
So the reason we have to put up with soaring prices and hosepipe bans etc. is because the shareholders got the money instead of the money going to mend the masses of leaking pipes and to build new reservoirs. Basically the entire infrastructure of the UK is crumbling due to the fat cat B*st*rds trying to turn a maximum profit for the shareholders.
2006-08-19 08:33:57 · answer #1 · answered by fieldmouse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest joke of all time: 11 out 12 months it's raining. Some blamed water shortage on illegal immigrants --what's next ?
2006-08-19 16:16:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked the same question myself this afternoon. Travelled with my football team Stamford, to play Chippenham in Wiltshire. Torreential rain all throughout the game, massive thunderstorm during the journey home. Incessant rain for about four hours and at one point I was trying to video forked lightning flashes through the front window of the car with my camera. A thoroughly nasty day....but I daresay the hose pipe bans are still in place!
2006-08-19 18:33:17 · answer #3 · answered by robin_peel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This morning while brushing my teeth I decided to put the plug in to see how much water I wasted. I was shocked to find I used a whole sink full as I don't usually turn off the tap. I will be doing so after this, please do not hold me fully responsible for the water shortage.
2006-08-19 15:50:00 · answer #4 · answered by suckaslug 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Currently 60% of the United States is officially in a drought.
I moved out to the edge of town and installed a well.
2006-08-19 15:17:01 · answer #5 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u talking global then yes
There been water storage around the world for the last century. USA waste the most natural rescource
2006-08-19 15:15:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The recent rain is not enough to fill up the resrvoirs to their normal level. It would need 2 successive winters of very abnormally high rain to refill the resrvoirs to normal. Maybe we need a national water grid???
2006-08-19 19:06:57 · answer #7 · answered by cognito44 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well been a small Island we will always have a water shortage
2006-08-19 15:16:39 · answer #8 · answered by micky k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in my garden we're not, it's getting quite boggy out there again and the brook is back to it's normal level.
Whatever happened to global warming? My heating has come on the last two mornings!
2006-08-19 15:15:52 · answer #9 · answered by Linda G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are in SE England, unless you are Charlton Athletic football club, who have had giant sprinklers on their training ground for the last three months. Why.
2006-08-19 15:16:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋