Water, Water, Everywhere!

01/12/2011 by Ann.

I am avoiding the news at the moment: it is full of doom and gloom which does no one any good, as people attempt to predict what happens in the future, when of course none of them would consult a psychic!

However today as I logged on a headline caught my eye: ‘Drought in UK next summer ‘Almost inevitable”

I almost fell off the sofa laughing: after a night of rain and the recent weather showing the highest rainfall figures across many areas of the country. Of course this so called ‘drought’ is only going to occur in areas where they have had a low rainfall in 2011. Apparently some areas only saw 70% of average rainfall. Another cause for laughter in a country that sees rain on a regular basis, and our shortfall is probably tens of times more rain than in countries such as Morocco.

Of course this scare mongering is followed by blame - people targeting greedy water companies, building projects and of course the government.

We have constantly had drought warnings in recent years and yet I have never had a hosepipe ban, and I live in the south, which is the warmest and driest part of England; this summer my lawns have remained lush and green.

There is more than enough water - it is abundant and yet the lack mentality featured in the media just adds to the doom and gloom. I refuse to buy in to this thinking: after all they said in the 1970’s we only had enough oil in the world to last twenty years!

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