Re: Brits Warned Drinking Water Could Run Out Due to Mass Migration

On 2025-05-31 1:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 31, 2025 at 10:37:51 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2025-05-31 1:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  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.
   

They could save a LOT of money by deporting the new arrivals back to
their home countries (or other "safe" countries). The pressure on the
water supply would lessen, the enormous expense of housing them in posh
hotels and giving them all kinds of social benefits would be cut and the
resentment of native Brits that the new arrivals had it a lot better
than they do would vanish. But hey, it's more important to be
"non-racist" so they spend hundreds of millions of pounds to build new
reservoirs.
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What's next? Desalination plants when the reservoirs can't keep up with
demand?

 No, you can't build those-- at least not in California-- because that would
solve the water problem and take away the 'drought is climate change'
boogeyman from the politicians. If we had plentiful drinking water and
fire-fighting water, they couldn't control us as easily. So we're told that
despite living right next to trillions of gallons of water, and despite them
working in countries all over the world, desalination plants are a no-go
because a fish or a snail might get sucked into the intake pipe and have a bad
day.
 

Somebody should look up how many species have already gone extinct in the 4.5 billion years since this planet formed and share that information with the California legislature. (At least a credible estimate since I expect there have already been many species that came and went without us ever encountering them and without leaving fossils.)
I just don't see the loss of a few fish or snails or whatever as that catastrophic. It's not ideal from a moral point of view for anything to be killed by acts of commission or of omission but letting millions of people run out of water isn't very moral either.
--
Rhino