"Col" wrote in message
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"AliCat" wrote in
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So the NW reservoirs are the lowest in the
country?

I find that difficult to believe.

Why, is there a better authority than the EA?

I'm just surpised, that's all.
In percentage terms the rainfall up here may
have been similar to
that down south, but in absolute terms it's been
much higher.

The expectation of rainfall over northern England
(especially in the reservoir catchments) is higher
than southern England. Percentages are probably
not the best way to compare capacity etc. The
figures were much worse in autumn '94 or '95, i
forget, (23% IIRC) and we survived the very dry
winter, spring and summer that followed. Only
just, maybe, but infrastructure/capacity has
improved since.