Il Regno Unito potrebbe rimanere senza acqua potabile? Gli esperti affermano che sono necessari “cambiamenti rapidi”.

I already made changes. –

I setup rain water harvesting, storage and local filtration. All in < £1000 with a projected saving of £400 per year (filters aren’t cheap), so should pay for itself within 3 years.

I’m using filtered rainwater for toilets, washing machine, land irrigation, water for animals etc. I’m NOT using it for drinking/bathing water even though its been lab tested as clear.

If you aren’t happy w/ the likes of Yorkshire Water, hit them in their wallets!

Would like to hear a more informed opinion on this but if push comes to shove could the UK not just build desalination plants yes it’ll significantly raise costs but are we truly at risk?

Just get the incompetent water companies to spend their profits on fixing leaks rather than lining the over-bulging pockets of the shareholders. Plenty of water in Blighty.

It’s almost like theres some big new technology that uses up gallons of water every single time its used and the federal government has been using it/endorsing it

It’s easy to blame the water companies but they’re low hanging fruit. 

This whole idea that the UK is a wet country and doesn’t have to worry about water is basically a myth. Most people live in the SE of England which is actually quite dry. Climate change and overdevelopment (=runoff) means that in much of the UK the water supply may actually shrink in the future (don’t just look at total rainfall, look at the kurtosis of the rainfall distribution, and think about what that means for groundwater recharge). All this at a time when the population continues to grow and agriculture will have to become more intensive.

Even if we fixed all the leaks it’d be a one-off solution that just delays the inevitable by a few years.

When you say UK, you really mean England, not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland!