200 dead and another 800 missing; (revised totals on Friday am are 400 dead and 1300 missing) another result of climate change; warmer weather may have allowed a big chunk of rock and ice to plumet onto a glacier causing it to break and send a wall of water, ice and debris down a valley. An avalaunche a few weeks ago killed mountaineers in the `Himalayas and a village was destroyed in the alps last year. These events will beome increasingly common as the temperatures warm. Wildfires are sweeping across Northern Algeria. But fires are old news! Next up are floods in the UK as the earth has been baked hard and infiltration lowered. Interesting that a hosepipe ban comes in tonight in this area, they are blaming low flow in the R.Severn – that could be ironic if floods hit the normal places like Tewksbury! Average water use pp in the UK is about 140 ltrs., so add in 10000 houses and 2 per house and we get an extra 1.4m litres per day needed at least? And they have built zero reservoirs and their pipes are still leaking! And all this without considering data centres, but of course it is the citizen who will have to pay, price of water is rising, whilst the fat cat investors who ensure investments are not given priority over their profits. When will our politicans come clean on the need to spend money now, to prevent further crisis.
I have just done some calculations Population increase in the last decade in Bristol and North Somerset is 62000, and @ 140 litres per day that is over 8 million litres a day – what have Bristol water done about this? And it is projected that the increase will be similar over the next 10 years without new data centres (and there are a few proposed).
