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0 pointsphilipallstar6mo ago0 comments

It's not always the immigrants. That comment's just as intelligent as actually believing it's always the immigrants. If the population were growing rapidly due to everyone having larger families, that would be the reason, but it's not.

If you add millions of people over the last 25 years (say) then of course water will become much scarcer. And it's not like, say, food supply, which scales up and down relatively nicely with demand. Additional water provision is a massive capital investment each time to provide a load more provision in a big chunk.

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alt2276mo ago

> If you add millions of people over the last 25 years (say) then of course water will become much scarcer.

Not if the profits from selling the water are reinvested into the network to increase the capacity to fit the need.

Are you saying that its fine that billions of pounds of UK water profits money have gone into overseas investors pockets, because we shouldnt have let so many immigrants into the country and so there would still be enough water services for all if we hadn't?

philipallstarOP6mo ago

> Are you saying that its fine that billions of pounds of UK water profits money have gone into overseas investors pockets, because we shouldnt have let so many immigrants into the country and so there would still be enough water services for all if we hadn't?

I'm not saying it's fine, no.

bjoli6mo ago

It was irony. England and great Britain is not using more water. Despite population growth, water use is trending slightly downwards the last 30 years.

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