Brits Warned Drinking Water Could Run Out Due to Mass Migration

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

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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.