Potential drought coming to UK

[Vitamin c]

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[jansman]

Over the last 20 years we have had several massive fish extermination events locally, caused by upstream disposal of sewage.

[Frnc]

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Brown squares are treated sewage discharges.
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[Frnc]

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Top tip. Practice your eskimo rolls in a swimming pool not in a UK river!

[Arzosah]

Sounds like you have an idea though.

Thanks!

Your waterbutts : I would just glue them in with say Araldite,and put plumbers tape on the thread. Fill em up and just bung a small bucket,pan or jug in the top when needed.

I actually bought some plumbers tape, but I quailed but I could do it, of course I could.

And you mean not waiting to plumb them in to a drainpipe (which is another issue all its own, bad placing) ... but fill at least one of them with water carried out from the house? Interesting! I could do that with the smaller, narrower one. The larger one, its on its side, and the lid fell off - I'm pretty sure cats and foxes make their home there now I'm not in any hurry to sort that particular piece of mayhem.

PS - as far as local streams are concerned, I'm very lucky - they all start **here**, as land drainage, you can see the little land drainage pipes emptying into the head of a "watercourse". I give it inverted commas because these streams are about a foot wide they've probably got fertiliser and dust from the road in them, but no effluent.

[jansman]

Sounds like you have an idea though.

Thanks!

Your waterbutts : I would just glue them in with say Araldite,and put plumbers tape on the thread. Fill em up and just bung a small bucket,pan or jug in the top when needed.

I actually bought some plumbers tape, but I quailed but I could do it, of course I could.

And you mean not waiting to plumb them in to a drainpipe (which is another issue all its own, bad placing) ... but fill at least one of them with water carried out from the house? Interesting! I could do that with the smaller, narrower one. The larger one, its on its side, and the lid fell off - I'm pretty sure cats and foxes make their home there now I'm not in any hurry to sort that particular piece of mayhem.

PS - as far as local streams are concerned, I'm very lucky - they all start **here**, as land drainage, you can see the little land drainage pipes emptying into the head of a "watercourse". I give it inverted commas because these streams are about a foot wide they've probably got fertiliser and dust from the road in them, but no effluent.

Have you a hosepipe? Use that to fill them up perhaps? As for streams,you have already thought of that ,and well ahead of neighbours.

[Frnc]

Sounds like you have an idea though.

Thanks!

Your waterbutts : I would just glue them in with say Araldite,and put plumbers tape on the thread. Fill em up and just bung a small bucket,pan or jug in the top when needed.

I actually bought some plumbers tape, but I quailed but I could do it, of course I could.

And you mean not waiting to plumb them in to a drainpipe (which is another issue all its own, bad placing) ... but fill at least one of them with water carried out from the house? Interesting! I could do that with the smaller, narrower one. The larger one, its on its side, and the lid fell off - I'm pretty sure cats and foxes make their home there now I'm not in any hurry to sort that particular piece of mayhem.

PS - as far as local streams are concerned, I'm very lucky - they all start **here**, as land drainage, you can see the little land drainage pipes emptying into the head of a "watercourse". I give it inverted commas because these streams are about a foot wide they've probably got fertiliser and dust from the road in them, but no effluent.

Have you a hosepipe? Use that to fill them up perhaps? As for streams,you have already thought of that ,and well ahead of neighbours.

I must admit the hassle of plumbing it in put me off getting one. Filling it with a hosepipe isn't a bad idea. I suppose collecting rain water is more eco, but at least I have another option.

[Frnc]

I wonder if small streams are less polluted. Trouble is some sewage is discharged into groundwater. Check the map. Peak District is pretty clean, but a bit far.

[jansman]

Thanks!


I actually bought some plumbers tape, but I quailed but I could do it, of course I could.

And you mean not waiting to plumb them in to a drainpipe (which is another issue all its own, bad placing) ... but fill at least one of them with water carried out from the house? Interesting! I could do that with the smaller, narrower one. The larger one, its on its side, and the lid fell off - I'm pretty sure cats and foxes make their home there now I'm not in any hurry to sort that particular piece of mayhem.

PS - as far as local streams are concerned, I'm very lucky - they all start **here**, as land drainage, you can see the little land drainage pipes emptying into the head of a "watercourse". I give it inverted commas because these streams are about a foot wide they've probably got fertiliser and dust from the road in them, but no effluent.

Have you a hosepipe? Use that to fill them up perhaps? As for streams,you have already thought of that ,and well ahead of neighbours.

I must admit the hassle of plumbing it in put me off getting one. Filling it with a hosepipe isn't a bad idea. I suppose collecting rain water is more eco, but at least I have another option.

In the Summer my battery of barrels are hose - filled so I can water the veg garden. That way ,if there is a hosepipe ban,my watering is not seen! I also like them full just in case of original reason for them being there.

[jansman]

I wonder if small streams are less polluted. Trouble is some sewage is discharged into groundwater. Check the map. Peak District is pretty clean, but a bit far.

We have a brook over the road that is supplied by underground springs. In fact my neighbour has a house called ‘Aqua Villa’ under which a spring flows. He has a manual pump to extract it!

Water is so basic ,yet so essential.