Pitch Watering

I can trust this thing called my own eyes. I've seen sunken villages that were not visible outside of really hot and dry summers being visible ALL YEAR ROUND for the last few years. This isn't a two-week issue like you are claiming. There is an issue where we aren't getting the right kind of rain in the right locations and snow in the right locations so our water sources aren't being replaced effectively. The hot weather just makes people realise exactly what a bad state our water supply is in

And again you called me Brainwashed when I SAID NOTHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE OR HEATWAVE OR DROUGHT. I responded to a ridiculous claim that we can't have a drought as we have sea all around us. The only way I could be called brainwashed with my post was if the reality was we could drink salt water but we were being told we couldn't. But the simple fact is we cant

 

Meanwhile the Valley Parade pitch continues to be watered.

 

And the rain won't solve the problem because again what people like you are failing to understand is less than TEN PERCENT of our water comes from reservoirs. If anything reservoirs are more of our safety net which is why when they are running low (which again many have been low consistently through the year for a few years now). Most of our water comes from groundwater followed by rivers and only then reservoirs and the problem is we have been getting less hard persistent rain storms and more short light showers and we are also getting less snow on hills/mountains so the groundwater and rivers aren't being replenished. And some rivers supply the water into the reservoirs so they don't get topped up. And when we have got heavy storms its more the extreme amount of rain over a fairly short period, the kind that causes flash floods which also isn't great for our water supply.

I should also point out you say we are having a good summer but are we? Are two separate periods of less than a week of really hot weather really 'good weather'. In reality its been weather that's been all over the place, there have been plenty of years, even fairly recently when we may not have had the extreme levels we have had for a couple of the days in the first one and are expected to have in this one BUT we have had more consistent 'uncomfortable' heat levels over a longer period of time.

 

We had rain after the last heat wave yet here you are claiming that the rain next week will 'make everything ok' We had one of the wettest Februaries on record but hey guess what the reservoirs were low in March. The reason that is is that you need the right kind of rain to replenish the groundwater, if the groundwater levels are low then we need to pull more out of the reservoirs. It could rain every day for the rest of the year and without it solving anything if its just light rain or short showers as it will not get into the groundwater.

And leaks are an issue but 1) It's something you can't stop, most leaks are actually so small that the can see from the output its happening BUT knowing where the leak is difficult to identify. They are small leaks but lots of small leaks obviously add up and you can't 2) it's only around 20% and most water companies have reduced that by over 10% in the last 5 years so its less of a problem now than it was so its not like this is the overriding problem, its an added factor but again the problem is the type of rain (and snow) has changed and its become harder to replace the water we use

 

Like that every year? Nonsense.

Certainly in one year, 1995, Fewston reservoir was exceptionally low; low enough to see the old submerged village. Mind you, 1995 was one of the hottest summers on record and also classified as a drought. Despite what you say, 1995 was also the last time there was a hosepipe ban with the one prior to that being 1976. They are not as common as you suggest.

Can you not see the parallels with the current weather conditions or is it all fake news for you?