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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>I love how "cups of tea" is the metric for measuring water in the UK.

I doubt very much it's population growth. It's obviously small-scale
California-style water mismanagement and failure to replace
infrastructure that needed replacement decades ago.

I love that the national government swoops in to dramatically "seize
control", shifting government incompetence from the local to the
national level. But they're all irresponsible idiots.

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>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35158533/drinking-water-run-out-ten-years-mass-immigration/

>Mass immigration means areas of Britain face running out of drinking water in
>just ten years, ministers have warned. Fears over shortages have forced
>Environment Secretary Steve Reed to seize control of the planning system and
>push through two new giant reservoirs.

>The emergency projects in East Anglia and Lincolnshire have been declared
>"nationally significant", stripping local authorities of the power to stop
>them. New laws will also fast-track all future reservoirs, cutting red tape,
>as Britain races to keep the taps on.

>The Government admitted rapid population growth, crumbling infrastructure and
>climate pressure are all pushing the country towards a water supply crisis.
>Net migration has halved over the past year to 431,000-- but only after
>hitting a record 906,000 in 2023.

>Water Minister Emma Hardy said: "Britain is running out of drinking water. We
>are taking these unprecedented steps to get reservoirs built and secure our
>drinking water supplies for the decades to come."

>The Lincolnshire reservoir, south of Sleaford, will pump out 166 million
>litres a day, enough for 500,000 homes or 664 million cups of tea, and the
>Fens reservoir, near Chatteris and March, Cambridgeshire, will supply
>87million litres to 250,000 homes in Britain's driest region. Thousands of
>homes in areas such as Cambridge and north Sussex are blocked from being built
>owing to water shortages and a dry spring has already depleted reservoirs.
>Haweswater in Cumbria is so low the outline of a village flooded to create it
>in 1939 has been revealed.

>The two new reservoirs are part of a wider plan to create nine new sites,
>supplying an extra 670million litres of water a day across England.