I read these two stories on after the other

[Bruv]

OK.....next question.

Where are they sourcing the water that requires desalination ? London is many miles from salt water.....(Desalination does mean extracting clean water from salt water....doesn't it ?)

As the link shows.....all they need to do is stop the leaks.

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by Bruv2

London is many miles from salt water.....

Thames is tidial will be salt 20-30 miles in land?

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Bruv2

OK.....next question.

Where are they sourcing the water that requires desalination ? London is many miles from salt water.....(Desalination does mean extracting clean water from salt water....doesn't it ?)

As the link shows.....all they need to do is stop the leaks.

The Thames is tidal and partly salt I fink!

[terrywit]

River Thames and boaty things

upto teddington is salt at high water?

battersea is fresh water at slack water (low tide?)

[Sweetpea]

Thanks, that's kind of what I thought.

[Bruv]

Well.....you live and learn....Im surprised at that. It does make some sense, in that the Thames is tidal, meaning it has high and low water.

It still sounds crazy to me though, taking water from a tidal river and purifying it, while you allow so much water to go to waste that you have cleaned already, by poor maintainance of existing pipework.

(Whats with the new sig.....revenge etc.?)

[poppy]

where e are it hardly ever stops raining,but the charges will be the same.

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

ReDKen.........hmmm! Do you know, once in my misguided past, I liked him.

Never mind, people round here don't hold the mistakes of a person's past against them for life...

(*Removes tongue from cheek*)

H.

[Churchill]

Originally Posted by Haqa

Never mind, people round here don't hold the mistakes of a person's past against them for life...

(*Removes tongue from cheek*)

H.

Liking someone and being mistaken about it is something we all do from time to time I guess. Being a big fan of Der Fuhrer and then telling everybody it was a mistake is something that a number of war criminals have been noted saying. RedKen is comparitevely harmless, I like him, but I don't like what he's done to London in the past.

[Von Spreuth.]

As I understood it the water companys are also responsible for removing/dealing with water drainage. So Of course floods will add to the cost.