contingency planning for fish
Where will the fish go if, as looks likely, there is a terrible drought this summer 'darn sarf'? With golf courses busy drilling boreholes and water authorities sucking ever more water from rivers to...
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Fair point Andy, but actually there is already a drought in southern England with resevoirs much lower than they usually are. The EA are warning of a drought and predicting a good possibility of fish...
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Hi All, Bewl water is lower than it's ever been, much worse that 75/76 - there's a drought order to pump back from the Medway. (Take a look at the Medway reports). Rivers in the SE are in serious...
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Did you know that private water companies can sell the water to others 'outside' of your area, even when they put in a hosepipe ban. Non-Domestic water customers have priority over Domestic customers...
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When a national matrix for water transfer was proposed recently ..The answer was---It'd be far too expensive!..I amongst just about every other person in the country who has any concern about the...
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A bit if devils advocate. Lets focus on the water that isn't leakage. Who uses it? Is it just big business? What do you drink and use? Had no water recently? Been told you are not going to have any?...
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Good post Mike. I used to work for Thames Water in a number of positions and I won't get started on the privatisation issue as it was always my stance that is was not theirs to sell in the first...
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Quote:Seem to remember a plan to drag an iceberg from the Artic to the desert area some time back. sounds like something out of monty python to me! cheers, simon
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Yes, I remember the ice-berg plan. I suppose you would need one heck of a barge to drag an ice-berg - at least an ice-berg bid enough to make the enterprise worthwile. I suppose what I was really...
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Mike I have to agree with you (but so want to be proved Wrong!!) If the situation gets so bad that fish are for want of a better word "Stranded" in small pools on smaller rivers then I hope that...
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The waste water from domestic customers and some companies will be pumped back into the rivers as mentioned but in a more concentrated form as treated Sewage Effluent. With droughts forecast, there...
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contingency plan for fish. no chance the only plans the authorites have is to bleed us dry suppy and demand is to high in the south of england i c'ant see it improving unless we have a dramatic...
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Ok, hypothetical situation. We pay for a service - the EA. There is a bad drought and the fish start to die because they have allowed Thames water (or whoever) to take water from the river. What legal...
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Whether it is true or not, i did here a while ago that the E.A were going to impose angling/fishing restrictions on rivers in times of drought in the future. I got the impression that it meant (by law...
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There is more than just waste water being pumped back in to the rivers. Significantly more. At least in the West there is. ( There is in other parts of the country as well). It's quite bizarre that...
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As you know sewage effluent includes a lot of the stuff you mention in everyday use, but it also includes viruses, bacteria, toxic chemicals, carcinogens, heavy metals and so on. If you remember, the...
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Tony- a good point..... the River Severn, for example, is a lot cleaner than it was due to over efficient water cleansing. Lowered NPK has reduced invertibrates and hence theres less for silver fish...
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Would clubs be willing to introduce angling bans on stretches if they get very low this year? Mike
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Mike, Good point and one I have discussed with others.I would assume many clubs will be holding their AGM's soon? If you feel youre club should have a contingency plan in place,then IMO,the first step...
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Am I right in thinking that I once read somewhere that the domestic washing up machine, nation wide, uses more water than is used industrially. I have no idea of the composition of the cleaning agents...
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I'll tell you what they do, they build a big pipe line from kielder water, running through various north rivers, so that they can pump water from us, using our river system as a conduit.
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