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United Kingdom: Region faces drought order as water supply falls
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on June 17th, 2010
Independent (UK): The threat of a summer drought is hanging over seven million people in the North West of England, it emerged yesterday. United Utilities, the company which supplies water from Cheshire to the Scottish border, is facing low supplies in its reservoirs and said that if there was no significant rainfall over the weekend, it would apply to the Environment Agency for a drought order. That would allow it to take emergency steps in abstracting water from rivers and lakes, to conserve ...
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Goldcrest numbers plummet after harsh winter conditions
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on June 17th, 2010
Independent (UK): Britain's smallest bird, the tiny goldcrest, may have suffered a population crash after being hit extremely hard by the harsh conditions of last winter, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) said yesterday. Confirming fears that the species, which had been increasing in number because of the warmer winters of the past two decades, would suffer a serious reverse in the freeze, the BTO said the number of gardens in which goldcrests were spotted had fallen by almost half. Across ...