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Drought orderJesseSite Admin Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 2188 Location: West Sussex Posted: 23 May 2006 04:55 pm Post subject: Drought order -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our local water authority (Southern) have applied for a drought order. Thought I'd post this link incase anyone else here is in the affected area and want to know what the restrictions would be if the order is approved. Sutton and East Surrey already have a drought order in place. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4772373.stm Doesn't look like it will affect me any more than the current hosepipe ban does. Back to top Kathy Moderator Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 1008 Posted: 23 May 2006 05:29 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have just read a rather scarey book, fiction but with a lot of fact. "Water Inc" by Varda Burstyn, it's about how the big business tried to take over the water supplies, it's a bit weak in places but I enjoyed reading it, this is the blurb: A fast-paced eco-thriller about a multi-billion dollar water heist — the biggest ever: The United States is parched and has a terrible thirst after years of drought. William Ericsson Greele, a brilliant, immensely powerful industrialist, figures he's the man with the solution and Canada is the place to make it happen. Exploiting Quebec's desire for independence, he organizes a consortium to pipe and ship water south. Serge Lalonde, a hot Quebec deputy minister, agrees to ram the project through while US Senators, state governors and federal officials ride shotgun for them. But there's one big catch: the project must be a fait accompli before the plan goes public. Otherwise a vigilant environmental movement might successfully derail it. Malcolm Macpherson, a Seattle aerospace executive, accidentally finds out about the plan. He enlists the efforts of rebel-girl Claire Davidowicz, director of eco-Justice USA, to try to head it off. Together they win the support Quebec and US environmentalists, a feisty British journalist, three rogue policemen, a reluctant eco-terrorist and a maverick Vermont governor hated by Greele's group and the White House. Deadly consequences follow in a desperate race against time and power. In an era when water scarcity has become a menacing reality all over the world, Water, Inc. is an exquisitely timely political thriller. With action sprawling across urban and rural America, into the cities and beautiful wilderness of Quebec, and as far as Mexico, Lisbon, and Brussels, it's a story of greed, heroism, clashing loyalties, love and mortal risk. _________________ Take care Kathy Back to top Jesse Site Admin Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 2188 Location: West Sussex Posted: 23 May 2006 06:05 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sounds like it could be true one day! I watched a programme on TV about how the water company in one of the African countries (can't remember which one now) was privatised and what a mess it landed them in. Their water supply was bad to start with but once privatised it was a lot worse and cost the public a lot more, all down to greed and corruption by the sound of it. What a sad world we live in where a company will rip off people who are in such desperate need of a basic human need in order to make another dollar profit. Back to top Haize Perennial Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 389 Posted: 23 May 2006 08:19 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The silly thing is, that campainers went on about the amount of water Coca Cola used in one area of India, and yet when they put the plant in, they vastly improved the water supply to the locals as well... They ended up being shut down! One example of business not being the bad guys, and yet it all went wrong for them. Can't see the drought situation appearing up here, given the constant rain we've had for the last while, incidentally _________________ Status of our house: No heating, no bathroom, no kitchen. Washing machine, fridge, and boiler sitting around in boxes. No door on room with toilet! http://www.manicfish.com/myblog.php?bbn=haize Back to top EchoChild Moderator Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Devon and Dorset Posted: 23 May 2006 09:01 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you know that Thames water have a wasteage of ..wait for it...200m gallons of water A DAY due to leaks in the infrastructure!.....my well has not held that much water in total volume in 400years!!.. _________________ Barrie L Clarke Founder EchoChild Project www.echochildproject.com Back to top mrutty Perennial Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 309 Posted: 23 May 2006 09:12 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haize wrote: The silly thing is, that campainers went on about the amount of water Coca Cola used in one area of India, and yet when they put the plant in, they vastly improved the water supply to the locals as well... They ended up being shut down! One example of business not being the bad guys, and yet it all went wrong for them. Haize, most of the arseholes in this world do enough research to get a good sound bite and nothing more. I'm endlessly punching great holes in the anti supermarket bollocks that is posted on some of these sites. You have to rememeber for every sane person there are 50 dickheads. _________________ I'm a sprout, I'm green and I make you fart! Last edited by mrutty on 23 May 2006 09:59 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top EchoChild Moderator Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Devon and Dorset Posted: 23 May 2006 09:45 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very diplomatic Mrutty. ..ever thought of being a politician! ...all too true! _________________ Barrie L Clarke Founder EchoChild Project www.echochildproject.com Back to top |