Hose pipe bans and football pitches

[scientificred]

Considering the present very dry conditions will hose pipe bans extend to football pitches which are still looking very lush and green. If the ban is imposed on the pitches will football still be allowed? Farmers amongst others are struggling!

[ianlfc]

Considering the present very dry conditions will hose pipe bans extend to football pitches which are still looking very lush and green. If the ban is imposed on the pitches will football still be allowed? Farmers amongst others are struggling!

It'll be pisshing down soon enough, nothing to worry about . You'd near think we've never had summers before.

[scientificred]

To help people with the maths... In rough terms an acre is a good sized football pitch and a hectare is 2.5 times an acre.

[ianlfc]

To help people with the maths... In rough terms an acre is a good sized football pitch and a hectare is 2.5 times an acre.

Or a acre is a normal field and a hectare is a big field 🤣🤣

[scientificred]

It'll be pisshing down soon enough, nothing to worry about . You'd near think we've never had summers before.

When it pisses down as you hope for the land is so dry that it will just run off and create floods. We need just a constant steady drizzly rain that persists for a few weeks but steadily passes over the whole country. It is not likely to happen anytime soon. Our food and water security are at risk. We cannot capture flood water. It just creates misery and is lost!

[Daffydd]

I see 'climate activists' in France have filled golf holes with concrete because the golf course was exempt from the hosepipe ban while hundreds of people went without. The reason for the exemption was, of course, money.

[scientificred]

I see 'climate activists' in France have filled golf holes with concrete because the golf course was exempt from the hosepipe ban while hundreds of people went without. The reason for the exemption was, of course, money.

Water is the fundamental element of life as we know it! With the fires there and so much water needed to dowse those fires and hundreds of towns having no water at all?
Fed up with seeing such parched lands in England and on fire too.
Animals and plants and crops dying.
More expense for us next year on our bills.
Still people like those ready-made BBQs that stink the whole place out and throw ciggies out the car window or still smoke them in parks.
Wise up!
The whole landscape is a tinderbox.
I worry also do football stadiums having enough water to control a fire should it happen?

[Insidious]

It'll be pisshing down soon enough, nothing to worry about . You'd near think we've never had summers before.

It's more the distribution of the water - we're getting more (lengthy) dry spells followed by rain that comes down onto hard soil and thus the water isn't absorbed the same way.

A good indicator as to how these things aren't functioning in the way they should is what's going on with farming and with ground-nesting Birds.

Floods have been a nightmare for things like Lapwings.

Ground-feeders are worth considering too. Even if you're not into Nature, it's a great indicator. Blackbirds aren't able to get into the soil to get worms as it is so hard. Whilst dry spells have always occured, they're happening more often, with higher temperatures and for longer durations.

There's Bee-Eaters nesting in Norfolk, Hobby (a falcon normally associated with the south coast of England in Summer) are turning up in Scotland and there's a small population of Swallows that simply aren't migrating as temperatures are remaining so (relatively) high in the UK at the moment.

[scientificred]

It's more the distribution of the water - we're getting more (lengthy) dry spells followed by rain that comes down onto hard soil and thus the water isn't absorbed the same way.

A good indicator as to how these things aren't functioning in the way they should is what's going on with farming and with ground-nesting Birds.

Floods have been a nightmare for things like Lapwings.

Ground-feeders are worth considering too. Even if you're not into Nature, it's a great indicator. Blackbirds aren't able to get into the soil to get worms as it is so hard. Whilst dry spells have always occured, they're happening more often, with higher temperatures and for longer durations.

There's Bee-Eaters nesting in Norfolk, Hobby (a falcon normally associated with the south coast of England in Summer) are turning up in Scotland and there's a small population of Swallows that simply aren't migrating as temperatures are remaining so (relatively) high in the UK at the moment.

Dear Sid,
Today I put out a small bowl of water for my little local pigeon family. Husband and wife for life.
Consecrated by the offering and acceptance of a twig.
Always thrown them food but now they are getting mighty thirsty.
No water to be seen for miles around.

[Insidious]

Dear Sid,
Today I put out a small bowl of water for my little local pigeon family. Husband and wife for life.
Consecrated by the offering and acceptance of a twig.
Always thrown them food but now they are getting mighty thirsty.
No water to be seen for miles around.

Good man yourself!

Change the water daily in case they bathe in it. An awful lot of Pigeons are carrying Trichomoniasis (possible spelling error) these days and shared water for bathing is a big spreader - it's absolutely decimated the Greenfinch population since 2007.

There's a river system near me that has been very low this year - haven't seen Dippers on it at all which is a pity.