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Why don't they just dilute it?
Cheers AL, I'm in full flow today.
I work in the water industry, and unfortunately along with energy it’s another dire situation. We had a conference yesterday about the depletion of water in the uk, by and large 40% of the uk will have its taps run dry in the next 20 years. I find this fact shocking, 8 years ago it was 18% in the next 30 years. Climate change is the significant factor, and water treatment infrastructure being non existent a close second. We now need to invest in desalination plants (sea water treatment in effect) but these are expensive and power hungry. So what will be the outcome. Increased bills to the factor of 50 to 60% in the next 5 years, and even that won’t be enough. Reduced water quality (this is already happening) the current government are actually promoting this. Water companies going bust. Water intensive Industries going under or being forced to close.Increase in prices to pass onto their customersIts all looking a bit grim in post Brexit/Covid Britain.
Sounds like more inaccurate modelling to me. Maybe Neill Ferguson advises the water boards too?So, just under half the country will not have running water by 2041? I don't buy it at all, although i do not want to be proved wrong obviously. I do agree with massive increase in bills though. That would happen regardless.
In defence of Keith, HD.''Its all looking a bit grim in post Brexit/Covid Britain''appears not to be blaming brexit for the water shortage but an observation about the current situation.
Quote from: KeithMyath on October 13, 2021, 09:04:14 amI work in the water industry, and unfortunately along with energy it’s another dire situation. We had a conference yesterday about the depletion of water in the uk, by and large 40% of the uk will have its taps run dry in the next 20 years. I find this fact shocking, 8 years ago it was 18% in the next 30 years. Climate change is the significant factor, and water treatment infrastructure being non existent a close second. We now need to invest in desalination plants (sea water treatment in effect) but these are expensive and power hungry. So what will be the outcome. Increased bills to the factor of 50 to 60% in the next 5 years, and even that won’t be enough. Reduced water quality (this is already happening) the current government are actually promoting this. Water companies going bust. Water intensive Industries going under or being forced to close.Increase in prices to pass onto their customersIts all looking a bit grim in post Brexit/Covid Britain. I could bore holes in that statement seriously are desalination plants viable AND !! when i first heard about the idea of towing icebergs years ago i thought it was a jokebut not sohttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/the-many-failures-and-few-successes-of-zany-iceberg-towing-schemes/243364/
We’re talking local stores of water that are highly susceptible to increasingly dry summers. Based on a mean of expected temperature rises over the next 20 years, every report undertaken on this even far back as the late 90’s always said by 2050 that we would be facing significant shortages of water supply. Factor in the climate issues excrlerating and it’s not exactly that shocking that those predictions have been revised down again, some 25 years on.Will those areas (geographical) not by population for context have no water? Of course not but they will then rely on other areas to take up the slack. We have very few provisions for storing rain water in winter to use in summer and there is no plan to change that. Those other areas will soon themselves run out of water.
Cyprus has no natural water supply. Every drop on the island comes from de salinisation. And it’s bloody expensive.
There are already many parts of the world where drinking water is a valuable commodity.
Quote from: KeithMyath on October 13, 2021, 01:15:08 pmSo Keith, is there a need for more storage facilities/reservoirs etc.... and should we be collecting more rain water when there are downpours? Also - I thought that aquacaps were going to be the next thing to be use to avoid evaporation in reservoirs etc - are they not viable for the UK?
It looks like we're gonna have to drink Beer instead.
Quote from: Bentley Bullet on October 15, 2021, 04:38:50 pmIt looks like we're gonna have to drink Beer instead.Amazing to think, before the Elizabeathan era one of the safest things you could drink was beer.you had a whole youthful population drinking beer all the time. Just imagine.No wonder coffee had such a transformative effect.
England better start being nicer to Scotland and Wales, where it generally rains more and has much more storage capacity.