Water

[enyam]

Is the hose pipe ban still in force after the wettest April in over a hundred years.The wettest drought on record?

 

[joinerjohn]

links?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question473.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arctic-ice-melts-cause-rising-sea

seems there is some truth in what everybody has posted

No. Only in what the Mighty Joe-90 has written.

There must be some calculations that show how much sea levels would rise if joe went swimming with his huge brain (and thus head) displacing so much sea water

I reckon if Joe dived into the North sea, the resulting tsunami would cause devastation in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.

Globally, sea levels would rise by an unprecedented 7m.
Joe's also responsible for Global Warming, every time he opens his mouth.

 

[joe-90]

Is the hose pipe ban still in force after the wettest April in over a hundred years.The wettest drought on record?

A wet April doesn't compensate for two dry winters.

 

[enyam]

A wet April doesn't compensate for two dry winters.

It as only officially been declared a drought recently so its still the wettest drought on record.

 

[AssociatedAlarms]

Rain water as it happens CAN be used directly to provide for the water supplies. We have reservoirs where it is illegal to swim , fish or boat because the water goes directly into the public supply without being treated. (gotta love the fish poo though..)

I think not, all is filtrated.

Reservoirs were located in positions where the catchment received little or no disturbance, thus the quality of water supplied was often wholly acceptable without the need for either filtration or disinfection. As public hygiene standards evolved, many of these supplies were improved with the provision of chlorination systems. The regulation of water quality ensures that all supplies are now provided with full treatment, including coagulation and filtration.

In England and Wales, two-thirds of drinking water comes from surface water, including reservoirs, lakes and rivers, and the rest from groundwaters. There are also areas that receive water from a mixture of sources.

Water is treated at water treatment works before flowing through water mains, sometimes over considerable distances, to arrive at the tap. Samples are taken at each stage of treatment and distribution along the way and tested by the water company to make sure that the customer receives high-quality water.

http://www.euwfd.com/html/lakes_and_reservoirs.html

 

[AronSearle]

"All bar one of the top 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1997 and all the UK's top seven warmest years happened in the past decade."

"on record" meaning since the Instrumental Period, 1850's onwards.

What happened before 1850

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

I am shocked and appalled that temperatures have risen since an "ice age".

Panic!

(Not getting into the whole "man-made climate change scare debate", but that particular line that Joe quoted is a joke of an argument to prove anything)

 

[joe-90]

Who cares? We weren't there to monitor it back then.
What happens is NOW in your lifetime.

 

[AssociatedAlarms]

Hosepipe ban in place still. I have a water butt and use that plus "grey water for non edible plants. Which is not many.
It amazes me these can still be used, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-6826...0001KA0DG/ref=pd_sim_lp_1/275-8343597-8097243 as in some of the properties I work in they are almost constantly on.

 

[EddieM]

Oh and we are only talking a couple of degrees per hundred years. You won't notice the heat differential but the balance is upset and ice caps melt and seas rise and El Nino causes chaos.

Quite wrong Joe. If the Arctic ice cap was to completely melt tomorrow, the seas would actually go down. Water expands when frozen. As the North Pole is actually frozen sea, it would cause the waters to recede across the world...... Now,, if the Antarctic ice was to melt then sea levels would indeed rise, as this body of ice is sitting on top of land. So all we have to do is build extremely large freezer plants in Antarctica to keep it frozen... End of problem.

That's not right, sea level would rise, as water is densest at 4 degrees C. Below 4 degrees C if is less dense i.e it floats, and by virtue of Archemidies principle it displaces the same mass of water as the ice weighs.

The problem comes in water is also less dense at temperatures higher than 4 degrees C. Therefore temperature notwithstanding, the melting of ice would at best have no effect of water levels, but due to the increase in temperature, water would become less dense, and therefore have a greater volume.

see here

 

[joe-90]

I've already told him that.

 

[EddieM]

I've already told him that.

You assume I can be arsed to read the entire thread

 

[joe-90]

I've already told him that.

You assume I can be a***d to read the entire thread

Too stupid more like.

 

[enyam]

Is the hose pipe ban still in force after the wettest April in over a hundred years.The wettest drought on record?

For some after the wettest drought on record the order has been lifted.


Link

 

[snico]

I've already told him that.

and you are still wrong

 

[subman101]

Surface reservoirs and rivers only account for a relatively small amount of water than is used.