The Blue Pill.

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I wrote in an earlier post:
'... The reality of solar-power in the Britain is ridiculous and if there was one area where exporting
a product would be profitable, is rainwater!! A few years ago, we were actually trucking water from
reservoirs near me in the north to the lower areas in the south...'

And here we freakin' go again. Every summer that it doesn't rain for a couple of weeks in the
south of England, that dry sky falls in and they start the 'hosepipe-ban' routine.

Rivers and streams in parts of UK 'under threat of drying up', says WWF.

'The warning comes as parts of the UK face the possibility of drought that the group says
could push wildlife to the brink.

Hundreds of rivers and streams are at risk of drying out due to poor water management.
A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature warns over half of chalk streams and a quarter
of rivers are under threat if action isn't taken.
At the River Chess in Buckinghamshire there's no water flowing.



The riverbed is dry, with cracked mud and weeds where the stream once ran.

Chairman of the River Chess Association Paul Jennings said: "This would be knee-depth
crystal clear water that's come out of the chalk aquifer, with lovely fronds of weed.
You have ducks and swans and all sorts of livestock in here plus fish.
But we don't have that now."

It's been dried up since October, and it's not uncommon here.
"Over the last six years we've had four drying events, where there's been absolutely no water
at all in this section," Mr Jennings said.
The problem is, when rivers dry up, the wildlife leaves.



The River Chess is home to kingfishers, rare water voles and several species of fish.
The WWF warns 550 bodies of water in England and Wales are at risk of drying out.
Its report says over-abstraction and poor management are to blame.

Put simply, consumers and agriculture are taking out too much water from our rivers...'
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