The wettest drought since records began

The drought warnings that are traditionally (and eagerly) issued in  the UK after 14 consecutive dry days, seem to be part of the  mechanism that ensures the (mostly foreign owned) water companies can edge up their prices without serious question.

However, we might find our collective intelligence would be less insulted if one of these climate johnnies from the Environment Agency could think of a rather more credible terminology to deploy in the middle of a drought when the news is covered in pictures like these.

If the aquifers are still empty, and you are standing up to your arse in flood water, then why not call it an "Aquifer Replenishment Requirement", not a "drought"?

As the sodden residents of Tewkesbury and other parts of the drowned West Country are frequently heard to say at times like these


"Ooo - ARR... it be raining..."

Meantime, in case we have all forgotten, this is what a proper drought looks like this... .

Overall, would it not behove the (ker-ching!) water companies to dig bigger holes near places like Tewkesbury, in which to trap the water when it does arrive? If the governments and their climate doomsayers really believed their predictions that we will lurch between torrential rain and parched earth until all fossil fuels are burned off, then a project of massive earth moving to create new reservoirs - possibly combined with hydro electricity projects - might be a nice way to plan for the sort of "depression--busting" public works from the 1930s that saw the US build the Hoover Dam and Nazi Germany create the autobahns..?