Water flowed "recently" on Earth

Despite being lashed by torrential storms all the way through November and December, drought orders remain in place in Blake's Green and Pleasant Land.

Incontrovertible evidence that water flowed recently on earth exists on the streets of Old London Town, where strange bipeds called "humans" are to be seen wearing galoshes and brandishing dangerous spikey things called "umbrellas" which turn inside out in "gales" of wind.

It is possible that under these circumstances Earth could have the right conditions for life. But it won't be life as we know it, Jim. µ