Is Devon bonkers or just drier than the rest of the UK?

[Adsibob]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/25/hosepipe-ban-south-west-water-devon-plymouth/ 

[SteamyTea]

Still have a hosepipe ban in Cornwall.

 

Water reserves are not a function of just one winters rainfall.

 

[Adsibob]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

Still have a hosepipe ban in Cornwall.

 

Water reserves are not a function of just one winters rainfall.

 

incredible. On most days recently, it has felt like it's not stopped raining here in the last month...

[Temp]

I'm not far from the River Nene and its been high for most of thus year do far I think. A few fields flooded until recently. 

[Dave Jones]

perhaps soakaways should be banned allowing more water to be sent down the drains to be stored, alleviating the hosepipe bans!

[Marvin]

Well, having previously completed a review of the areas of the most yearly rainfall in England I note that Dartmoor was high on the list! Pity the water companies haven't found a way to store that lot!

 

 

[SteamyTea]

2 hours ago, Marvin said:

Well, having previously completed a review of the areas of the most yearly rainfall in England I note that Dartmoor was high on the list! Pity the water companies haven't found a way to store that lot!

 

 

It is to do with geology.

Not enough artisan wells, or chalk.

Cornwall and Devon are a chain of extinct volcanoes after all.

Cleaning up water from deep wells is problematic in a radioactive area, as is cleaning up river water in a heavily farmed area.

That is before the residues of 2000 years of tin, copper and arsenic mining is dealt with.

There is a reason that Backwater and Red River are names as such.