A recent report concluded that England could run out of water in 25 years. How you preserve enough water for everybody without having to harm the environment is the most important problem. Having a citizenry in the first place is more important than creating more reservoirs or pumping water out of the ground that may end up destroying ecosystems. Having a sustainable population is more important than having a giant one. Big populations are not natural or beneficial.

Key Takeaways:

• Further water abstractions will not solve the problem of dwindling resources rather we need to achieve a population that our resources can provide for.
• The size of the population is something that can be controlled. It isn’t a variable like rainfall that is left to chance.
• The environmental agency should be more serious about protecting British water and it should put pressure on the British Geological Survey to improve its poor map quality.

“Of course we need to address leakages and curtail wasteful water use but, fundamentally, water consumption is driven by the number of water consumers.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/22/theres-nothing-inevitable-about-water-shortages