England, no way sorry

Oh Annie the Northern reservoirs have been topping up Southern supplies for a long time. A few years ago they were sending water tankers by road from Keilder to the South. I don’t begrudge the South “my” water , I’m sure they would do the same for us if the situation was reversed.

Well I'm absolutely fed up with Welsh people coming to England on holiday and using up our sunshine. Oh come on seriously - the long term issues of water shortages in the SE have to be addressed and it should be being thought through now. The GMB which has since apologised was just tying this in with some other water developments. Whats ridiculous is the plethora of water companies which gets in the way of longterm planning for what is a basic necessity.

Oh dear, so do I. I wondered what my problem was

Ilovecheese, surely you have valleys in the south, flood one

What happened to the people of Capel Celyn was really cruel. They were told they loved ones buried there could be dug up an interred elsewhere, no matter many generations had lived and died there. So Liverpool drinks water which covers the graves of a community.

I joined the protests up there , no use was it.

Liverpool apologised in 2005

So if England needs water there is bottled Welsh water they can buy ?

But MOnica the people who’ve worked all this out have university degrees and everything. You can’t expect common sense as well.

Staying out of this one. Our water in Norfolk comes from rivers and aquifers. No shortage here. Yet.

Thames Water want to drown 2/3 of the parish I live in under a reservoir with an area of 2 square miles. The reservoir is not in a valley but flat land and will have an embankment 85 feet high round it.

The land is a flood plain that takes the water that would otherwise flood our village. The flood relief scheme is on the opposite side of the reservoir to the village

Is this a failure on the part of the useless Thames Water?

Crikey, I'm surprised it was t turned into a Hollywood film! I don't mean that trivially just that it's amazing how they went on to become teachers etc

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/tryweryn-gwynedd-bomber-relives-night-10285601.amp

They seem to be just thinking around ways to prevent a shortage of water in the South.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/incredible-pictures-show-welsh-village-10284365.amp

A bomb! Very high emotions at the time.

par for the course,they took coastal waters from Scotland the night before devolution so that now our coastal waters only begin at St Andrews!! That means coast off everywhere from the border up is included in English coastal waters .....strangely those very waters are the base of some very lucrative oil rigs !!..We will have them returned to us when we get Independence .International law is on OUR side ,shame Englands government didn't understand that .

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn

I'd never heard of it so am reading up on it.

I am English but now live in Wales.

We do get more rain here than my parents do in England but it does seem strange to think of a reservoir here being used to supply England.

Excuse my ignorance Annie but what did happen to Capel Celyn?