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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 13:24:51 +0200
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On 2025-05-09 12:38, Don Y wrote:
> On 5/9/2025 1:21 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
>> On 08/05/2025 22:18, Don Y wrote:
>>> On 5/8/2025 12:51 PM, KevinJ93 wrote:
>>>> When the coal miner's strike power usage reductions were in effect I 
>>>> was working at Marconi-Elliott in Borehamwood.  We were not allowed 
>>>> to have the lights or heating on but it was permitted to use test 
>>>> equipment so we would huddle around our Tektronix 547 scopes to keep 
>>>> warm, they used to put out a lot of heat.
>>>
>>> The only "utility" that I can recall being VOLUNTARILY rationed was 
>>> water,
>>> back east, during a period of drought.  We were "strongly discouragd"
>>> from watering lawns, washing cars (car washes are far more efficient
>>> at this as they recycle the water), etc.
>>
>> We also live on the watershed for that. Just far enough north to be on 
>> the copious Northumbrian water supply (intended for all the now 
>> defunct steelworks) but with sewage outflow going downhill to 
>> Yorkshire Water.
> 
> We always had ample water -- so it was *common* to use a hose as a broom.
> Or, to water a lawn, wash a car in the driveway, etc.
> 
> The "drought restrictions" were a bit of a shock to people as everyone
> always thought water was limitless.  Driving around town there were
> many reservoirs -- some in places where only a single lane road would
> separate you from the reservoir to your left vs. the one on your right.
> 
>> It has great advantages - Yorkshire Water has many leaks and not 
>> enough reservoirs so hose pipe bans are almost inevitable every 
>> summer. One particularly bad year they were moving drinking water in 
>> tankers from Northumberland Water to Yorkshire to maintain supply. 
>> When it gets really serious they have had to resort to stand pipes in 
>> the street.
>>
>> Looks like this year will be a bumper year for drought orders as there 
>> hasn't been any significant rain here for nearly a month now and we 
>> have have broken record temperatures for May already. Reservoirs in 
>> sensitive areas are at abnormally low levels for this time of year.
> 
> We've (here) been in a state of drought for ~25 years.  And, that's
> with an normal annual precipitation of ~11 inches.  The shift in mindset
> is astonishing -- to go from ~50 in/yr to less than a quarter of that.
> And, for it to be confined to just 2.5 months out of the year...
> 
>>> Here, of course (desert southwest), peer pressure and threats of fines
>>> tend to keep folks inline.
>>>
>>> The idea of using a garden hose to "sweep" debris off your
>>> driveway or sidewalk would be met with a gasp and a glare.
>>
>> Fair enough. Where I live the water supply is the huge Kielder 
>> reservoir built to service a once thriving major steel industry on 
>> Teesside. Even if it didn't rain at all for a year we would still be 
>> on supply.
>>
>> Next village is on Yorkshire and often get hosepipe bans in summer.
> 
> We "store" water in the ground.  The hope being that we can extract
> it when the time comes.
> 
> There have been some foreign companies exploiting our water supplies
> (deep wells to farm and then export the farmed products).  I htink
> there is some action being taken to confound this practice.
> 

Yesterday I heard on the news that most cities in the USA are sinking 
down, due to water extraction from wells.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.