Log Goblins

[openspaceman]

24 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

This is my point!!!! On the whole when that water goes through the lock it's gone, only replenished by feeders or resivours (sp) that run dry in the summer months.

Understood but you frst started talking about drinking water.

 

A friend of mine is a water footprint expert, formerly with the world wildlife fund  and then  a more specialised Quango. He has recently taken up the chair at a South African university 'cept they won't let him in because of his ethnicity. He calculates the amount of water used to produce a T shirt imported from the far east and such as well as agricultural use. He says wars over water have already started, somalia being one

[eggsarascal]

Am I missing the point, (probably) or talking in riddles?

 

where does that drinking water come from?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

7 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Understood but you frst started talking about drinking water.

 

A friend of mine is a water footprint expert, formerly with the world wildlife fund  and then  a more specialised Quango. He has recently taken up the chair at a South African university 'cept they won't let him in because of his ethnicity. He calculates the amount of water used to produce a T shirt imported from the far east and such as well as agricultural use. He says wars over water have already started, somalia being one

Didn’t mean to “like” but given the options was a bit limited - recognition that ‘water wars’ are already underway and likely to intensify and expand was the point I want to ‘acknowledge’ rather than ‘like’

 

It has been interesting to read about canal water displacement, not something I’d ever considered, makes a lot of sense now it’s been explained. 

Edited June 3, 2018 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[eggsarascal]

25 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

 

It has been interesting to read about canal water displacement, not something I’d ever considered, makes a lot of sense now it’s been explained. 

When we were boating on the cut last year we moored in Stone and went out for a meal with our kid, when we got back the boat was "right on the piss", (leave it Johnson), the water level had dropped that much that the boat was way off how we'd left it.

[difflock]

13 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Where does the water in your Well come from? You ain't thought this through have you?

Well!, I have, cos tis not really a well per se.

it simply catches local surface groundwater, water trapped just sub-surface by the local glacial clay, water which in our relatively wet Nth Co Antrim is rather plentiful.

And since I have returned 15 previously farmed acres back to nature,

I deem this a more than fair exchange,

 

I fink I have paid my dues to nature and the local/Global Environment.

cheers

marcus

Edited June 4, 2018 by difflock

[Stubby]

Any one got any money they don't want ?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

On 02/06/2018 at 14:00, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Maybe he was a Camellia Leaf

??????

That tickled me Gary....!

 

 

[openspaceman]

8 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

where does that drinking water come from?

Okay I thought you were  making the point that we were using expensively treated and sanitised water for  irrigation, toilet flushing etc. where rainwater might do the job rather than discussing an absolute lack of water in summertime.

 

Having just returned from Shropshire where 60mm fell overnight last week there was plenty about.

[Gary Prentice]

2 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Having just returned from Shropshire where 60mm fell overnight last week there was plenty about.

Overnight, I think we had that within ninety minutes last week https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/flash-flooding-stranded-cars-thunderstorm-14735057

 

Hose-pipe ban coming?

[eggsarascal]

3 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Okay I thought you were  making the point that we were using expensively treated and sanitised water for  irrigation, toilet flushing etc. where rainwater might do the job rather than discussing an absolute lack of water in summertime.

 

Having just returned from Shropshire where 60mm fell overnight last week there was plenty about.

My apologies. I was talking about the use of water on the whole. "We" think we have an endless supply of the stuff. To be fair I still don't get why we use treated water for things that we could use untreated water for.