‘For the rain it raineth every day’:
Floods in the Slad Road when it raineth every day,
Springs and streams racing down five valleys
When the rain it raineth every day.
But drought can bring its own problems too:
‘The irregularity of water power caused “making up time” to be a regular feature in water-driven mills at some seasons of the year; and if children sometimes only worked 3 hours a day and often only 6, at other times they had to do 12, 14, or even 19. At Eastington work could not begin until after 1 p.m. and at Painswick the water would flow from 10 a.m. or noon until 10 p.m. or midnight, “and it not used would be an enormous loss.”’
1833 Factory Commission Report