Wat-er Carry On!

I'm really starting to get a bit fed up with the BBC national news' insistance that water shortages in the South East are down to a lack of rainfall.

Last night on the national news, a reporter was taken down into an underground reservoir and shown how low the water levels are.

Amusingly enough, on the local news (I live in the South West) they showed footage of the Burrator Reservoir on Dartmoor. It was full!

The shortage of water in the South East can't possibly have anything to do with the lack of investment in the piping network, could it?

The fact that Thames Water has sold off seven reservoirs to property developers (which now seem to have dried up and had houses sprout up in their place) is merely a coincidence.

We may well have had a dry winter but the extremely wet summer and autumn made up for that... Has anyone actually noticed that whenever there's a hurricane on the other side of the atlantic, we get a high winds and heavy rain soon after? Last year was an all time record for hurricanes.

If you point out the floods, downpours etc. to water companies they'll very quickly point out that it's 'not the right kind of rain'. Bullshit! The problem is they haven't installed the 'right kind of drain'

To be perfectly honest I don't give a toss about the water shortages. It'll mean that bills in the South East will go up but they'll still only be a fraction of the extortionate amounts we pay down here.

The reason ours are higher is because we have to keep the beaches clean so that the parasitic second home owners can migrate from the South East to wreck them again in the summer.