Possible water shortage Leeds/Mossley

[eggsarascal]

Anyone up there heard about this?

[Stubby]

On 05/07/2025 at 16:00, eggsarascal said:

Anyone up there heard about this?

Seems not Egger mate . 🙂

[daveatdave]

Yorkshire water are imposing a hosepipe ban from Friday for the general public but not for trade 

[Steven P]

Was just about to say the same

[sime42]

Hosepipe ban for Yorkshire Water customers as reservoir levels dwindle

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Yorkshire Water warns the ban could last until the winter months with more dry weather forecast.

 

 

 

[eggsarascal]

On 07/07/2025 at 19:10, Stubby said:

Seems not Egger mate . 🙂

They have now, Staffordshire Moorlands are going the same way,. Tankers are also running water into Stoke on Dope. Not surprising considering we've not built any new reservoirs for 30 years, coincidentally only a few years after the water authorities were sold off.

[AHPP]

8 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

we've not built any new reservoirs for 30 years, coincidentally only a few years after the water authorities were sold off.

That’s a really good point. 

[openspaceman]

13 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

They have now, Staffordshire Moorlands are going the same way,. Tankers are also running water into Stoke on Dope. Not surprising considering we've not built any new reservoirs for 30 years, coincidentally only a few years after the water authorities were sold off.

There's one being made near Havant.

 

My well has run dry which surprised me.

[eggsarascal]

7 minutes ago, AHPP said:

That’s a really good point. 

You couldn't make it up, massive increase in population over that time and  no more storage capacity.

 

The first person to mention global warming is having it...

[eggsarascal]

6 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

There's one being made near Havant.

 

My well has run dry which surprised me.

Fair enough, but how many have been built in the last 40 years?