wannabeeahack wrote:
Private Reggie wrote:
Is it worth the waste of millions of gallons of water and where in your neck of the woods are they going to get that water? Unless of course they start sucking up the water from the flooded areas but even that won't be enough.
Could I draw your attention to this image, the blue bits are water....

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Very good

Having established that we are surrounded by sea water, now raises the problem of getting it potentially 150 miles inland to a given spot, economically

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and there was me being taught at school that no where in the uk is more than 70 miles from the sea or is that just made up.
You are of course right, I took the measurement at the widest point. In any event 70 miles is a fair piping distance.