AJB Temple wrote:Bob is also blissfully unaware that global warming means he will soon be living in a desert, with his pensions consumed by air conditioning bills and wondering where his next drink of water will come from. Cyprus has a water shortage and currently imports 8 million cubic metres pa by tanker from Greece. Seawater desalination plants are overloaded. Bit concerning I would think? But I am not a sun lover. I walk on the shady side of the street
Weather here in Kent this year has been perfect. Wet May has done absolute wonders for the trees and garden. We had two weeks dry and then another deluge. Everything is super lush.
Baby fish have appeared in the narrow "canal" in their hundreds. Bizarre.
Adrian, your information is woefully out of date
Strangely.... we moved here in 08, unaware that it was the 4th year of drought. All the reservoirs were so low that people were wading in and pulling out the fish for food.
The whole island was on a rolling water turn off. On for three days, off for two. Oil super tankers were converted to water carrying and a pipeline was built out in the sea because the super tankers were too deep to get close to the shore. Due to the political impasse with the north (which had a lot of water), one of the southern MP's resigned, started up a supply company, and bought water in from the north by pipe.
In 09, it rained, oh boy did it rain. I thought I was back in England. And then it rained, and then it rained some more. Three years later every reservoir on the island was overflowing into the sea. The desalination plants were shut down, and car wash businesses boomed.
2021 and the reservoirs are still full (admittedly partly due to a million less tourists showering every day).
In the winter and spring this island is as green as the Somerset I came from. Now the uncultivated fields are golden brown, and the vegetation grows a foot a week.
I'm fully happy.
I didnt move here to be cold you know.