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There is an impending water shortage in Britain — since the water companies were privatized, they stopped building additional reservoir capacity.
by Symbiote 1y ago
There is an impending water shortage in Britain — since the water companies were privatized, they stopped building additional reservoir capacity.
- keanb 1y agoMaybe they should stop the massive increase in population if it cannot be sustained by the resources in the island.
- ben_w 1y ago"if" is doing the heavy lifting there. The privatised water companies chose to stop building additional reservoir capacity. From what I've read, the UK pipes currently leak about the same percentage of the water going through them, as the percentage by which the population went up since privatisation. It's money and incentives, not a property of the geography.
- graemep 1y agoWhen they try to they get stopped by NIMBYs.