Wot No Fountains!
It is always reckoned that if you want it to rain on your event, you ask the Queen, as she is renowned for bringing the rain.
But the current drought has even stopped the fountains in Trafalgar Square, as this article in the Telegraph outlines. Here’s two pictures I took today.
The visitors don’t seem too bothered. The Queen’s bad luck doesn’t seem to be having any effect. It will of course bucket down at the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics
The Anonymous Widower 
These fountains used to be fed from an artesian well, as did many other places. The last I knew only Natwest close to the Abbey was still using theirs. The watertable under London was supposed to be rising due to the death of industry and industrial extraction. Why nor re-instate, it’s hardly rocket science.
Comment by peter hoskins | April 12, 2012 |
The water is still there and is now being used to cool the tube.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/static/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/4987.html
The only reason they have closed the fountains, is so they don’t annoy those, who can’t use a hose to water their gardens or wash their 4×4.
Just wait until they see the amount of water they use to water the Olympic Park. That water will come by processing the sewage from the Nothern Outfall Sewer, which runs beside the Park.
It’ll be the biggest row of the Olympics, that they can water the park and you can’t water your garden in Hampstead.
Comment by AnonW | April 12, 2012 |