-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Splish splosh : Re: [Y-IRL] Water in Ireland Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:33:30 -0000 From: "Jane Lyons" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>, "Ben Palmer" <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> I've found this water thread to be fascinating and educating ( from a few angles) and I never really thought we'd have so many mails about it...........and I'm here saying - this thread has to be put up in the groups files when I get round to it! Ben's made me smile I have to say and I'll have to think of some other word instead of lurker ;-) I remembered the barrels of rainwater earlier today - almost every house had one, and even when they had running water they still had a barrel......... you washed your hair in rain water if you wanted it to be at it's best - and once they had running water then that's why they kept those barrels in place..........*but* only in places where the water was or is soft...........some counties, the water has so much limestone in it, it's horrible................the taste of something like tea can be affected by the water in the locality. As for the running water in houses - I know of lots of places with no running water, there's a house down in Glengarriff in west Cork where the water source was a local stream and a pipe lay in that stream to bring the water to the house - many's a time I've been out traipsing up the stream to find maybe where the cattle had disturbed the pipe and we were without water............. and there was the time that the filter disappeared and we found little fish in the sink!! Regularly, an underground spring would spring into the house - I remember once waking up to find my 2-3 yr old singing 'splish splosh' and her out in the kitchen in her wellies splashing away in the flood!! The problem with local development and the affect on groundwater is very obvious in some places - few think of this kind of thing, here in Dublin we have one conservation area - Booterstown Marsh - a Bird reserve, but really protected because of the fact that it's the farthest point south that one plant is found.......... Booterstown marsh has a spring - or had. Development in this part of Dublin has resulted in groundwater dissipating..............streams have dried up and so has this spring. Most homes in areas such as Inishowen and Glengarriff will have a well and it's from there that they get their water. Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Palmer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 11:26 PM Subject: [Y-IRL] Water in Ireland > Jane, > > A Lurker .. what .. me? > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/dvArlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/