Where does the dirt lie in and around your home?

Quite right, Doodledog, water is not moved from place to place as there is no infrastructure for doing so. If there was a national water grid, no doubt Scottish Water would be charged for putting water into it, just as our electricity generators are charged for putting electricity into their grid!

The OP has explained more than once that the water she used was not wasted, but watered her garden, and that she lives somewhere with an abundance of water. She has therefore thought about what happens to the water she has used, and is not, as some people seem to think, just being careless.

If we were saving water to ship it around it would be different, but we aren't, are we? Not yet, at any rate.

I have a dim recollection of a water shortage in Yorkshire some 40+ years ago when water was being brought in by the tanker load for some time. There were loads and loads of them travelling up and down the main trunk routes. I'm trying to remember why there was a shortage. I'll have to go and look it up now.

But, it might come to that*; I've sen a suggestion today that this drought might go on until October..

(*though probably this dozy government wouldn't think of it)

Here we are. Water shortage in Yorkshire 1995

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13815317

It's lovely and green up here in the NE we have had rain recently and there is still water in my water butt. My DS thinks "levelling up" is going to involve the south trying to get some of our water.

As far as the dirt goes I passed a duster into the corner behind my TV recently and it came out covered in spider's webs!

Quite right, Doodledog, water is not moved from place to place as there is no infrastructure for doing so.

Welsh water supplies Birmingham from the Elan Valley via aqueduct and Lake Vyrnwy supplies Liverpool.

They could do it years ago but it's beyond us now!

To those that think water is piped around the country, Do you think the flooding in Hull is caused by people in the Southeast concreting their gardens preventing rain from soaking away?

I would prefer it if posters weren’t so judgemental so quickly. We don’t know where Baggytrouzzrs lives, or if there is an immanent hose pipe ban in her area. There’s no hosepipe ban in my area either, it’s only certain areas that are affected.

Elizabeth27

To those that think water is piped around the country, Do you think the flooding in Hull is caused by people in the Southeast concreting their gardens preventing rain from soaking away?

Does anybody believevhat?
But reservoirs eg for cities like Manchester can be quite a long way way

Open bookcases. We have a few of them and they each get cleaned about once a year. I don't know why but I'm always shocked at the amount of dust and cobwebs on and behind the books. One of the bookcases is a favourite hangout for some big black spiders that move like Usain Bolt and scare the living daylights out of me.

MawtheMerrier

Elizabeth27

To those that think water is piped around the country, Do you think the flooding in Hull is caused by people in the Southeast concreting their gardens preventing rain from soaking away?

Does anybody believevhat?
But reservoirs eg for cities like Manchester can be quite a long way way

Yes Maw, Wales provides a lot of the water for big cities in the west, Birmingham, Manchester amongst them. However, there’s no link between water networks unless they have been set up specifically to deliver water to an area. I hope one of the solutions is to build more local reservoirs to supply heavily populated areas rather than deliberately flooding out more Welsh villages to create them here.

To answer the OP.
Dust is everywhere in my house, apart from any area Just dusted. I have done only a minimal amounts of housework in this hot weather.

Oh dear , was thinking of dipping my toe ( waste of water!!!) back into Gransnet , but unfortunately the holier than thou judgementals still abound- shall go away again for a while ....

Elizabeth27

To those that think water is piped around the country, Do you think the flooding in Hull is caused by people in the Southeast concreting their gardens preventing rain from soaking away?

The flooding in Hull is mostly caused because most of the area is below sea level and absolutely nothing to do with rain or water supplies. It was used during the Civil war to stop Charles 1 laying siege to the city. They broke the river banks and flooded the area so he had to go back to York.

Casdon

There isn’t a water shortage everywhere, people are being judgmental without knowing where Baggytrazzas lives. She may live on the west coast of Scotland where there’s loads of rain and loads of water in the reservoirs - and she may be watering her lawn while she’s cleaning her mat.

In answer to your question Baggytrazzas yes. I’ve got a log burner built into a hearth in my lounge. Yesterday I decided to Hoover underneath, behind and above it, it’s quite dark and I found in addition to lots of cobwebs three discarded dog biscuits in the deepest recesses. Yuck.

Live and let live. She might live where I do we are storing water for the north of England and they are still talking about new reservoirs.
My dirty spot is the bottom of the wardrobes I don't know where it comes from but they are always thick with navy Blue fluff . Non in the drawers but a little in the cupboards. I reckon it is insulation from the loft .Also behind the facia boards in the kitchen but I am closing my eyes to jobs while it is so hot.

Well I ve finished work and now going to dip my toes and the rest of me in the North Sea they really need to up the desalination ideas

However, there’s no link between water networks unless they have been set up specifically to deliver water to an area

I don’t think anybody suggests this is the case so why argue that it isn’t?
I hope I didn’t give the impression that I believe this happens, I know it doesn’t so a bit of a futile argument.
However we do have a collective responsibility to the environment and to claim “That's not the case here” sounds a lot like not caring in general.

It is sadly impossible to ship or pipe water the huge distances from where it is still raining to those suffering drought conditions

I thought that was clear enough.

MawtheMerrier

^However, there’s no link between water networks unless they have been set up specifically to deliver water to an area^

I don’t think anybody suggests this is the case so why argue that it isn’t?
I hope I didn’t give the impression that I believe this happens, I know it doesn’t so a bit of a futile argument.
However we do have a collective responsibility to the environment and to claim “That's not the case here” sounds a lot like not caring in general.

I think it’s probably a good thing long term that this drought is happening now. There is probably a greater volume of water which leaks per household per day than we use, there are no links between networks, and there needs to be a long term strategy for managing water nationwide. I don’t think that it’s fair to suggest that people in areas where’s there no shortage and no restrictions are being profligate with water in the absence of those actions happening though.

yorkshire reservoirs are at 53% capacity
kielder 83%
derwent 43.5%

in 2022 peak reservoir supply all over uk has gone down much faster than in previous years

Some people seem to not realise that water accumulation needs to at least be on a par with consumption in order to not deplete rservoirs even further. It is not on a par in 2022

Here is a link if anyone is interested. The graphs tell the story

www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-situation-local-area-reports

This really deserves a thread of its own. It doesn’t answer the OP at all. Is that because no one has any lurking dirt?

Nope ????

Just wondering why the OP needs to water her plants if it rains there everyday!

Mollygo

This really deserves a thread of its own. It doesn’t answer the OP at all. Is that because no one has any lurking dirt?

Apart from behind the washing machine my house and all my mats are immaculate!

dragonfly46

Just wondering why the OP needs to water her plants if it rains there everyday!

Well spotted ????