Drink

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Parched landscape, hard rain

oh! to hear the ground groaning

drinking a long drink

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by Scooj

  • Yesterday my area (one of the last in the country) fell into a Temporary Use Ban (TUB), more commonly known as Hosepipe Ban. This is an administrative stage in the drought management process and is designed to slow the demand on water resources. Although the groundwater situation is generally good after a very wet winter, rivers and reservoirs are very low, and it will take a long period of persistent rain to recover them. All the while people are still using water in high volumes, hence the ban.

Prediction

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Prolonged dry weather

laying foundations for drought

build those reservoirs.

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by Scooj

Extremes

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From flooding to drought

extreme weather more often

from drought to flooding

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by Scooj

Second wave

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Feel the heat building

day temperatures at night

and drought on the way

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by Scooj

Dynamic age

Age of droughts and floods

age of rising sea levels

age of migration.

by Scooj

  • I added two seven syllable lines to convert this into a Tanka, but I felt it just a little too sanctimonious. They were:

unless we do something now

this will be our legacy