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Post by sweetpea on Mar 12, 2012 20:05:54 GMT
Watching the news tonight I couldn't help but wonder why with all the technology available that the powers that be haven't got round to building pipelines from those areas like Wales and Scotland to supply farms in the drought stricken areas.
Either that or desalination plants instead of great useless wind turbines.
Another thought: why can't the East Anglian beetroot growers water their fields with sea water?
Beet is a maritime plant and in the garden you can use salt water as a weedkiller over your beetroot with no harm to the crop.
No doubt there is some reason but I don't know it.
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Post by Lou78W on Mar 12, 2012 20:10:59 GMT
It will be all down to Money SP....I feel so sorry for those in East Anglia etc., a hose pipe ban so early in the season.........  |
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Post by Cherry on Mar 12, 2012 20:15:07 GMT
SP Red beet is grown in this area, not near the sea. There is a plan to bring water from the north-west to the south at a horrific cost and not on stream until 2033.
The farmers here all have their own reservoirs and although we have drought conditions here, we send water to Essex. This is just near the Denver Sluice. However, we get our water from Anglian Water, so the ban will affect us. I can get it from the dyke for my new hedge. It is only a few feet away from it.
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 12, 2012 20:27:16 GMT
SP Red beet is grown in this area, not near the sea. There is a plan to bring water from the north-west to the south at a horrific cost and not on stream until 2033. The farmers here all have their own reservoirs and although we have drought conditions here, we send water to Essex. This is just near the Denver Sluice. However, we get our water from Anglian Water, so the ban will affect us. I can get it from the dyke for my new hedge. It is only a few feet away from it.
These things we can live without but water we can't.
Seems rather short sightedness on the government not to have a facility like a national water grid on a par with the electricity and road/rail links which also cost plenty. |
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Post by Cherry on Mar 12, 2012 20:45:29 GMT
Good point SP.
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Post by Louise on Mar 13, 2012 7:21:57 GMT
Watching the news tonight I couldn't help but wonder why with all the technology available that the powers that be haven't got round to building pipelines from those areas like Wales and Scotland to supply farms in the drought stricken areas. Either that or desalination plants instead of great useless wind turbines. Another thought: why can't the East Anglian beetroot growers water their fields with sea water? Beet is a maritime plant and in the garden you can use salt water as a weedkiller over your beetroot with no harm to the crop. No doubt there is some reason but I don't know it. Precisely. The volumes of rain that this area receives should be put to use. Still talking of water .... last Thursday the water board came to do the annual 'thing' with the drain that is outside my house ....... they open up the manhole cover and do something that enables tons of water to gush up and out and down over the road. These torrents gush for several hours at a time down the road and i always wonder how this is helping the situation  To me it just seems like a shocking waste, is it all collected somewhere else |
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Post by grindle on Mar 13, 2012 8:39:09 GMT
SP Red beet is grown in this area, not near the sea. There is a plan to bring water from the north-west to the south at a horrific cost and not on stream until 2033. The farmers here all have their own reservoirs and although we have drought conditions here, we send water to Essex. This is just near the Denver Sluice. However, we get our water from Anglian Water, so the ban will affect us. I can get it from the dyke for my new hedge. It is only a few feet away from it. This just doesn't make sense, surely that makes your situation even worse |
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Post by Cherry on Mar 13, 2012 12:11:29 GMT
Grindle, if you look at your roadmap and see what the fens are like. (Flat!) There are huge drains alongside most of the fen roads and then the area is criss-crossed again and again. Some of these drains are huge and need bridges to cross to get to these roads. Just on our small 40 acres we have 8 drains and one of them is 10 ft deep. They eventually go into a pumping station where they join water to go to Essex or down to The Wash. We are not short of water here, we are just in the water company which takes its water from Graffham Water or somewhere like that and their reservoirs are low. Just in the next village, there is the River Wissey and then the cut-off channel which is enormous and stops flooding when the River Great Ouse, which runs past here in Southery, is high.
We are always being told that we receive less rain than Jerusalem, but this last year it is about half of that. I may not be precisely right, but we do get the frighteners put on us.
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Post by grindle on Mar 14, 2012 4:58:10 GMT
:-/it all gets confusing  |
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Post by esther on Mar 14, 2012 19:18:29 GMT
I will have lovely arm muscles by the end of the summer- just hope it stops at a hosepipe ban |
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Post by Tel on Mar 14, 2012 19:31:19 GMT
I hope the ban does not last too long, it will be a right pain having to water plants with a watering can etc.  |
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Post by peony on Mar 14, 2012 19:44:10 GMT
The hosepipe ban here starts on 5 April |
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Post by Lou78W on Mar 14, 2012 21:11:57 GMT
I had heard that it was starting very soon down your way Peony......sorry to hear it |
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Post by peony on Mar 15, 2012 16:32:16 GMT
I had heard that it was starting very soon down your way Peony...... sorry to hear it [/color] Thanks Lou, if we get some rain then I think the established plants should be OK, but I've decided not to do as many pots and baskets as usual so that I don't have to do too many trips with the watering can  |
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Post by tadpole on Mar 21, 2012 19:53:23 GMT
i got in touch with enviroment office and asked them about desalination they said apart from costing the earth the stations would pollute the air so they threw that one in to touch
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