Water Shortage?

[TWR]

Should there be one? we are surrounded by water, why can't we remove the salt like they do abroad & use the salt for the roads etc.

[scotman]

It costs money to do that in quantities that would be useful.

[stokemaveric]

i dont think its ''sea salt'' they use to grit the roads with twr...is it???

[RATTER15]

Its ground rock salt I believe, I think its quarried.

[anneasquith]

scotland could sell you some !!!!!!!

[Maydup]

No the salt for the roads is mined and processed in Nantwich. Its been the centre for salt prodiuction since Roman times.

Its extremely expensive to desalinate water and we wouldn't normally need to with average rainfall. This year has been exceptional in the East of England. It still not rained here properly since March.

[sandyRoe]

If this water shortage gets any worse we could always take it neat.

[classylady60]

I put this question to those in the know and they replied it would be too costly to ave desalination plants here.....so of course we still keep paying for services that are rubbish where they waste water and let consumers waste water even though there's never enough to go round with the ever increasing population of this island!

[sandyRoe]

If we got rid of all the asylum seekers and other foreigners would there be a water surplus?

[Maydup]

Domestic use is high for sure, but its industry and farming who have higher useage and who struggle the most in a drought.

Lets hope the buses are not being cleaned at the moment nor the golf courses watered.

[Hopkirk]

Try to keep up, TWR

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10213835

[TWR]

Hopkirk, I live in the North, we never find out whats going on in the Smoke, regards the Salt Maverick,I have haulage tons of the stuff from Nantwich & that is usually used for the roads, But last year white salt was used & If I remember it was up in Cumbria.