Garden Boreholes

It's like Dallas down in the south east of England as gardeners are drilling for liquid gold. No, not the black stuff (oh how great it would be to drill your back garden and find you're sitting on top of 500 billion barrels of oil!) the TRANSPARENT STUFF. You know, good old H2O, more commonly known as water. Cunning gardeners with a few quid in the bank (cost about 3-15,000 to fit) have worked out they can legally drill for water on their own land, and as a result bore hole drillers are rushed off their feet, with a 100% increase in business. Domestic boreholes can legally extract 4,000 GALLONS of water per DAY! I love the preachy comment from the Environment Agency saying people still need to be considerate as they are still taking water from the system. Nice advice, now did they warn the government that allowing net immigration of 3 million in 10 years would mean another 16,400 BILLION LITRES extra per year would be taken from the 'system' compared to 1997? I doubt it, and a slightly bigger issue than a few bore holes. See the gardenandgreen exclusive about the impact of mass immigration on water usage below the newspaper link. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/315284/How-to-beat-the-hosepipe-ban-just-drill-for-your-own-water http://www.gardenandgreen.co.uk/#/hosepipe-ban/4562774408