Water water everywhere

So the first drought order for 11 years takes effect today in England.

OK, I mean I'm all for conserving water and sensible use and all that, but c'mon people

IT'S RAINING!

It's been raining all day. And all night. It was raining all day yesterday. And most of last week. It will be raining all of tomorrow. The drainage ditch for the new houses being built down the road is overflowing. the local river is only millimetres off it's banks. the little stone humpbacked bridge in the old town has less than 3inches of air gap between it's highest point and the water. The pooh sticks wash past quicker than we can run sccross the bridge.

Britain is an Island, completely crisscrossed with rivers, lakes, loch's, ponds, streams, marshes, bogs, and waterfalls. You can barely walk a mile without having to cross water.

I know that an abundance of water does not mean that there is enough clean water, and that the problem is moving the clean water to the population centres, but last year the water company that applied for this order made a profit of £8.8million! Perhaps if they spent some of that on investment, sewerage plants, rainwater conversions, grey water recycling and plugging leaks in their mains pipes it would be better for everyone - except a few fat-cats obviously.