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Apr 14 2012, 06:35 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Apr 13 2012, 12:01 PM) It depends, but probably not. Aquifers are really big, like many tens of miles across, but the water in them is not terribly mobile, so drawing down the water table in one location doesn't greatly influence the water table in other locations (though it depends on what kind of ground it is) unless you're creating a really big gradient by pumping out millions of gallons. Mostly the ground water is just moving down the water table gradient until it emerges in a stream, and that journey can take many years (I know rivers rise when it rains, but that actual water might have fallen ten years ago and was effectively squeezed out of the aquifer by the weight of the rain joining the queue in the uplands) so to some degree if you don't use the ground water it isn't saved for someone else to use, it just flows out to sea. Yes. In addition to bore holes, many big estates also treat their own sewage. Along with the rain that falls on the land, the ground gets replenished following local human use. The general problem we have with water in UK is concentration of population and housing in certain areas, such as the drier south east.
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Apr 16 2012, 01:34 PM
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ololol
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Apr 16 2012, 03:15 PM
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Dead. Talking of hose and pipes... I washed my car today. Bucket. Not a fun experience. I hate it.
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Apr 16 2012, 03:48 PM
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Apr 14 2012, 10:23 PM) In his comments on the 'story', Mr B had said he banned the use of hosepipes on the estate (even though there is a borehole) because he recognised the source was the same aquifer (the newspaper quoted aqueduct, but I suspect that is a typo.....) Oh, he probably has an aquaduct, built on the backs of the workers out of their bones, sweat and blood.
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Apr 18 2012, 07:33 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Apr 18 2012, 08:27 PM) I post rubbish. ce Is it you who keeps stuffing that junk mail in my letterbox?
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Apr 19 2012, 11:15 AM
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Sorry about that.NWN Reader. !
I often wonder if anyone keeps,or uses the leaflets. I get stuff from gardeners, cleaners,Pizza, Thai,Indian, Solicitors,Estate Agents Gyms. As I live in a street with a mini recycling bin outside my local supermarket it gets binned. Especially the Gym and Well being ones. So when I collect my Telegraph and a bottle of Pinot I feel that I have saved the planet. ce
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Apr 23 2012, 10:26 AM
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Last week............ MONDAY - rain TUESDAY - rain WEDNESDAY - rain THURSDAY - rain FRIDAY - rain SATURDAY - rain SUNDAY - rain TODAY - rain Forecast for this week.......... TUESDAY - rain WEDNESDAY - rain THURSDAY - rain FRIDAY - rain SATURDAY - rain. Although apparently it's the "wrong sort"
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Apr 23 2012, 05:15 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Apr 23 2012, 11:26 AM) Although apparently it's the "wrong sort" No, I think its the right sort sure enough, but it's getting a little late. Once spring is on the way what rain does fall tends to evaporate in the warm weather and get transpired by growing plants before it has much of a chance to soak down deeply into the ground and join the aquifier, but while the weather is currently cool and the rain is consistent and moderate it will help, but it will need to rain like this for the next six weeks to make much of an impact.
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Right an injustice - give Simon Kirby his allotment back!
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