I am fortunate to live in an area blessed with a plentiful supply of water. Our maritime climate is driven by moist air coming in from the Atlantic Ocean, heated by the Gulf Stream. The air cools as it rises over the mountains and loses its excess moisture as rain.
Loch Katrine in the Trossachs has supplied the city of Glasgow with clean fresh drinking water for over a century and a half thanks to the work of the Victorian engineer John Frederick Bateman. When we have such an abundance of water there is little pressure to save water and you may be thought daft for even suggesting it but are there wider environmental benefits of reducing water consumption here?
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Another Landslide
Another landslide closes the A83 Rest and Be Thankful with the road expected to remain closed until at least Friday. This time debris has not landed on the road but the remote monitoring system triggered an emergency closure. This landslip occurred after nearby Tyndrum recorded 54mm (2") of rain in 24 hours.
Also announced today is a project to remove a bottleneck on the A82, which is the main route from Glasgow to the west highlands and the diversionary route when the A83 is closed.
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Also announced today is a project to remove a bottleneck on the A82, which is the main route from Glasgow to the west highlands and the diversionary route when the A83 is closed.
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Rest and be Thankful, but not about Climate Change
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