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Rainwater Harvesting Tanks Protect Against Uncertain Rainfall
The BBC examined this week how climate change is an issue affecting farming and food supplies throughout the world. Rainfall is not as predictable in modern times and drier weather can interfere with growing seasons. Enduramaxx has discussed on numerous occasions how, on top of the drier weather, water restrictions are also an increasingly worrying part of farming and water supplies. Whether the ...
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Northern Ireland Water Supply Problems – Vertical and Horizontal Rainwater Tanks
It’s a topic that just doesn’t seem to go away, and that’s water supplies in farming. As reported by Farming Life, just before Christmas, Northern Ireland farmers feared water supply problems as Northern Ireland Water planned industrial action by hundreds of workers over a pension dispute. Northern Ireland Water, a state owned company, issued a statement declaring that it could ...
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Farmers Respond To Water Consultation – Rainwater Harvesting Tanks A Solution
Farmers will have had to have responded to a government consultation by this week which aims to help agriculture get its fair share of water. Water abstraction and irrigation rules face their biggest overhaul for more than 50 years under plans contained in the DEFRA and Environment Agency consultation. The consultation is agriculture’s chance to influence how much water is available in the ...
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Northern Ireland Water Supply Problems – Vertical and Horizontal Rainwater Tanks
It’s a topic that just doesn’t seem to go away, and that’s water supplies in farming. As reported by Farming Life, just before Christmas, Northern Ireland farmers feared water supply problems as Northern Ireland Water planned industrial action by hundreds of workers over a pension dispute. Northern Ireland Water, a state owned company, issued a statement declaring that it could ...
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Bigger is Better – UK’s Largest Rotationally Moulded Polyethylene Water Tank
We pride ourselves as a forward-thinking company and our products are both innovative and hard-wearing. This month we launch the UK’s largest rotationally-moulded polyethylene water tank, enabling farmers to store up to 30,000 litres or water in optimum conditions. The water tanks are made using one piece of rotationally-moulded UV-stabilised polyethylene. The result is a very hard-wearing ...
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DEFRA Interested in Views on Water Abstraction – Rainwater Tanks Could Ease Problem
Defra this week called out for the broader opinion of water extractors. It states that; many abstractors may not realise the inter-linkages in a catchment between water availability and their abstraction, and in particular, that they may be dependent on discharges made by water companies upstream, particularly at low flows. Therefore, Defra is interested to learn their views on how much these ...
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The Ultimate Clean Water Supply Pack – Horizontal Tanks
We’re pleased to announce the launch of ‘The Ultimate… Clean Water Supply Pack’. If you’re a spray contractor, or work in watering livestock and watering applications, then this solution puts clean water at your fingertips. Based around our hugely successful horizontal tanks, the water tanks are fitted with an extremely effective pump. Our water tanks are made ...
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Norfolk and Suffolk Farmers Water Worry – Rainwater Tanks Can Help
Farmers growing irrigated crops in Norfolk and Suffolk are taking steps to protect their businesses from drought, according to the Lynn News. A survey carried out by the NFU reveals that farmers throughout the region are investing in new irrigation equipment, improving water efficiency, changing crops they grow, or investing in more reservoir capacity. Their actions come after half of the ...
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Growers Face Water License Regime – Rainwater Harvesting Tanks Can Ease Pressure
Funded by the Environment Agency, the WATERR project has recently presented research findings indicating that growers throughout Kent are increasing their trickle irrigation water usage and that substrate grown crops, which use efficient trickle irrigation techniques, topped the average water use by crops in the three project years or 2011, 2012 and 2013. Substrate strawberries used 2,495 cubic ...
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Boreholes, Springs and Rainwater Tanks to Tackle Rising Water Costs
Again, we read about the importance of water in dairy farming in this week’s Farmers Guardian. Katie Jones writes that water costs are being controlled on one farm in Devon through utilising spring water on the unit. Located just North of Plymouth, despite farming in an area home to the longest stretch of coastline and with seemingly high levels of rainfall, the South of England still has ...
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Farm Incomes Fall – Bad Weather and High Costs Blamed – Rainwater Tanks A Bonus
According to Western Morning News, farm incomes have fallen and a combination of bad weather and high costs are blamed. The report refers to figures from the latest farm income statistics released last week that cover the last twelve months to February 2014. According to the figures, farm business income is falling on cereals, general cropping, and mixed and grazing livestock farms. However, ...
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Collaboration to Manage UK Water Supplies – Rainwater Tanks an Option
Water is a hot topic in farming at the best of times. But add one of history’s wettest winters, one of the driest summers in recent years, and also the threat of impending water rate increases, and it’s no surprise that managing this precious resource in farming is on the tip of most farming journalist’s tongues. This is certainly the case for Caroline Stocks in Farmers ...
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World Water Day Celebrated – Rainwater Harvesting Tanks
With nearly 750 million people throughout the world having no access to clean drinking water or improved sanitation, World Water Day, which took place on Sunday 22nd March, raised awareness that a secure water world is emerging as a top human development priority in the post-2015 Development Agenda. The theme of water and sustainable development emphasises how water is an essential asset to all ...
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Rainwater Tanks Could Ease The Water Crisis
The Guardian reports this week that ‘The fabric of our society is threatened by our mismanagement of water’. According to Jacob Tompkins, there is a global water crisis unfolding. From floods in the Balkans to drought in California. With 780 million people lacking access to clean water and with China declaring in 2013 that it was moving to importing rather than growing its own food ...
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Herald emphasises how precious water is for Agriculture - Rainwater harvesting tanks beneficial
The Scottish Herald this week emphasised how we must treat water as a precious resource. As water and irrigation rules in England and Wales face their biggest overhaul for more than 50 years under plans contained in a consultation by the Defra, and the EA. Of course, agriculture is a major user of ater for irrigation, accounting for about 70 per cent of water used worldwide. Modern irrigation ...
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Vital Irrigation Supplies and Water Storage Tanks
Once more, farmers have expressed that a review of abstraction licenses and incentives for reservoir building should be high on the new government’s agenda, according to Easter Daily Press. Water is of course one of farming’s most vital natural resources, yet its availability is being increasingly governed by an unpredictable climate and demand from a growing population. One of the ...
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Farmers Facing Water Restrictions – More Plastic Water Tank Solutions
Farmers in the South of England could be facing immediate restrictions on water, according to Farmer’s Weekly, even though May presented itself as the wettest month for two years. After a recent National Farmers Union water resource group meeting with the Environmental Agency, questions have been raised on the sense of European Farming rules, in particular, the Water Framework Directive, ...
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More Talks on the Water Framework Directive – Rainwater Tanks Helping Farmers
Farming Life details how the UFU environment chairman and senior policy officer recently attended a meeting of the European Commission Water Framework Directive Common Implementation Working Group on Agriculture. Although somewhat of a mouthful, the meeting took place at Greenmount College and represented the UFU and COPA groups. Attended by representatives from all EU member states, the group ...
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Enduramaxx Launches the UK’s Largest Rotationally Moulded Polyethylene Water Tank
For Immediate Release Peterborough, UK. Enduramaxx Launches the UK’s Largest Rotationally Moulded Polyethylene Water Tank Peterborough-based Enduramaxx continues to support British farming with the introduction of its 30,000 litre water tank; the largest available in the UK. The company also supplies Cone Bottom Mix Tanks with a top frame for fitting mixers and agitators, ...
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DEFRA Interested in Views on Water Abstraction – Rainwater Tanks Could Ease Problem
Defra this week called out for the broader opinion of water extractors. It states that; many abstractors may not realise the inter-linkages in a catchment between water availability and their abstraction, and in particular, that they may be dependent on discharges made by water companies upstream, particularly at low flows. Therefore, Defra is interested to learn their views on how much these ...
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