[News] London running out of drinking water?

[Lenny Rider]

Fergal Sharkey, a great singer with a good heart, on GMB this morning talking all things sewage, and threw this into the conversation.

Another scare story?

Took to Google and found this

London could run out of water in 25 years amid rising drought risk, report warns

London already receives about half the amount of rain that falls in New York City, and climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of droughts in the region

www.independent.co.uk

I take it this doesn’t effect the lucrative bottled water industry?

 

[BN9 BHA]

I take it this doesn’t effect the lucrative bottled water industry?

 

[Is it PotG?]

It's gonna happen, on Wednesday week.

 

[beorhthelm]

that article whipsaws between local and world wide issues. makes it pretty meaningless scaremongering, with nonsense stats and vague unsupported claims.

 

[pwlr1966]

The Government could have included a huge water pipe from the north when building HS2!

 

[Coldeanseagull]

There's a great big river running through London, boil some of that....they'll be fine

 

[Doonhamer7]

I thought it was a well known fact - London is not sustainable water wise. I think it gets less replenishable water than the likes of Rome And Madrid. it could get a second/third desalination plant (environmenral unfriendly and expensive) or we could revive the Keilder reservoir to the se England pipeline option we reviewed in early 90s. or the one you all love sewage to drinking water - something both Southern and Anglian Water have looked at.

 

[Eeyore]

It's gonna happen, on Wednesday week.

It's going to happen...

 

[Weststander]

I thought it was a well known fact - London is not sustainable water wise. I think it gets less replenishable water than the likes of Rome And Madrid. it could get a second/third desalination plant (environmenral unfriendly and expensive) or we could revive the Keilder reservoir to the se England pipeline option we reviewed in early 90s. or the one you all love sewage to drinking water - something both Southern and Anglian Water have looked at.

Rome and the Apennines have incredibly wet winters, the topography made the creation of hydro systems easier.

On a global scale, SE and Eastern England gets little rain.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Is this down to immigrants or this one Ken Livingstone?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It;s all the fault of Brexit and the French stealing the English Channel.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Selling off the family silver 30 years ago. Thames Water is owned by the Chinese.

 

[Stato]

I blame Thatcher.

Mind you, my kids will tell you that I do have a tendancy to do that. Whether it's economics, geopolitics, Eurovision, the World Cup, the weather, or the decline in quality of Saturday night TV, I'll find a way to blame Thatcher.

Though it's nice whenever something does turn out to be her fault.

I worked on the privatisation of England’s water in 1989. It was an organised rip-off | Jonathan Portes

Taxpayers lost out, and consumers have paid through the nose ever since. This failed regime is long past its sell-by date, says economist Jonathan Portes

www.theguardian.com

It's more frequent than you might imagine.

 

[Official Old Man]

Where does all the bottled water come from?
I sell around 500 small bottles a week of Cristaline water. A mere 250 litres of the stuff. But I see pallets of water on the lorry going to other shops as well. Then, in France, I see the same company selling water. They must clear millions of litres a day. Where does it come from?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Where does all the bottled water come from?
I sell around 500 small bottles a week of Cristaline water. A mere 250 litres of the stuff. But I see pallets of water on the lorry going to other shops as well. Then, in France, I see the same company selling water. They must clear millions of litres a day. Where does it come from?

The sky ?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Where does all the bottled water come from?
I sell around 500 small bottles a week of Cristaline water. A mere 250 litres of the stuff. But I see pallets of water on the lorry going to other shops as well. Then, in France, I see the same company selling water. They must clear millions of litres a day. Where does it come from?

A crystal blue stream in Scotland?

 

[5Ways Gull]

"Let them drink beer" she said

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Double the rainfall in Wales, just dig a canal ............

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The Government could have included a huge water pipe from the north when building HS2!

Average rainfall in London isn't much different from what it is in (looks ups HS2 route) Birmingham.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Where does all the bottled water come from?

Waitrose?