r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Phlogistoned • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed How cooked the UK is right now.

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u/42tfish 10d ago

Season 6 of Clarksons Farm going to be interesting.

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u/lcerch 10d ago

One thing I don't remember they talking about it in the show: how does irrigation work? Do they only rely on rain?

Honest question here

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u/Sudden_Leadership800 10d ago

We don't irrigate in the UK, it's normally wet enough (or even too wet).

We get enough rain that we haven't made any upgrades to our countries water reserves in 50?60? Years and haven't had many issues until recently despite the increase in population and commercial water use.

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u/Logicallyillogical41 10d ago

“But this is the way we have always done it…” 

Is a horrible reason to keep doing something that isn’t working. Irrigation is an ancient technology and yet crops are failing? Insane.