How do we stop future water shortages?

As parts of Britain are placed under a hosepipe ban, Tom Heap looks at what's being done to stop us running out of water in a warming world.
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[@thespian1961]

Build a few reservoirs instead of more houses and stop immigration for at least ten years.

[@johnbest4513]

Thanks for bringing up the 20,000,000 foreigners.

[@barrywood7322]

How to stop future water shortages in two moves first stop building to many houses and draining land for them. Two limit the influx of so called refugees most of the infrastructure we have are from the days of a lot lower population.

[@lukeframpton3671]

The problem is we are over populated

[@noseygits4354]

Stopping leaks would be a massive help I know they can't be helped in some cases but surely that's the biggest waste of water other than just leaving taps on to go strait down the drain without being used 🤷

[@keithbecaus4430]

The one Shute way of conserving water is to force the water companies, under threat of extremely punitive fines, to fix the leaks. They should also be forced by the same extremely punitive fines to stop using our rivers and the sea as sewers.

[@terryrowe289]

Make the water companies invest and update infrastructure instead of passing all the money they make to their shareholders

[@johncollins2037]

Shareholders would not except that, a large proportion probably live abroad, in a country with a climate that is more constant all year around, worth millions and just feel that more money means success.

[@DgurlSunshine]

@@johncollins2037 MAYBE THEY NEED TO GO TO PRISON FOR ECOCIDE!

[@cliffface9081]

Thames Water leakage rate = 24%. London population growth since 1990 = 33%.

[@bobbydowngrades]

didnt even watch the video, i paused 2 seconds into the advert but heres the simple answer. water companies should improve their infrastructure, it's not rocket science. just cuz the supermarkets got away with making us scan our own shopping made the water companies think they can tell us to stop using water.

[@pressurefpv]

Half a billion to lay 250 miles of pipe? Who sorted that contract out.. More bottled water than ever in the shops, this drought is a money maker..

[@barbschat]

Plant more trees and large shrubs. Turn off taps properly no drips. Have buckets to catch rain/ rain catchers then filter water

[@centralstar7168]

Im so confused I thought we live on an island with water surrounding all over

[@thegoodthebadandtheugly579]

I guess they are talking about clean drinkable water? Not sure why more of the ocean’s water cannot be taken, refined and made available.. 🙄 again - costs money, and the UK political leaders, elite and big business don’t want to move their asses and spend the money that is happily going into their private accounts via all kinds of ways on public infrastructure..

[@gunsumwong3948]

In UK the democracy dictates infrastructure will only be built if there is a profit to be made. Thus the citizens must have to suffer from a water shortage first, the water rate can then go skyrocket and the higher receipts can be used for bringing water from elsewhere to the water-starved region.

[@tombartram7384]

Welsh water has no shareholders and they're 8th dearest out of 12 uk providers. "For Wales not for profit" is their slogan. Plus, we've got hosepipe bans.

[@annaredding]

Democracy has nothing to do with it. Politics 101 needs revision.

[@hammyh1165]

Storage , more storage and even more storage. We're not that short of rainfall. Scottish reservoirs were at 99% capacity in March and it's nearly gone and we are on hosepipe bans now. This is all due to no increase in storage and a huge increase in houses built.

[@annaredding]

Storage yes - and also land engineering. The profile of rain is changing too in some areas (e.g. more intense rains=less rain absorbed by land and more goes straight to sea) so having forests, ponds and other way of encouraging retention is important.

[@niblet112]

Update the way we capture the rain that happens 350 days of the year. Just another example of the complete incompetence.

[@leifcian4288]

Agriculture, horticulture, conservation, urban planning ect.

[@annaredding]

@@leifcian4288 I don't have much hope, since even the simple things don not work - like dealing with sewage. How are those more complex solutions to be effectively applied I find hard to imagine.

[@kevinwake8789]

Maybe just maybe UPDATE the aging pipeline that causes 3-5 MILLION GALLONS of lost water PER DAY, the equivalent to between 6 and 10 Olympic size swimming pools.

[@peterkabrna]

Er !!!!!!!!!!Let me think. How about building some new reservoirs and stop all this ridiculous house building

[@ragnor56]

All right laying the pipes but where are the water storage facilities?? Water Utility companies too busy spending money on massive shareholders bonuses to be bothered about any droughts !!

[@cheekyboy5000]

The most important priority is to keep giving billions to shareholders, instead of investing that money into preventing leaks. The interests of the rich are far more important than delivering an essential service. That's what the Tories, and to a lesser extent, the Labour party, and the media believe in.

[@pjj177]

True ! They’re all in on it 👌

[@applepie8772]

Build more desalination plants. Why has the Thames one been off line for more than a year yet the water companies make record profits. Criminal negligence. Nationalise now!

[@nnr2dm243]

UK rainfall over the past 20 years and much before that is a constant with a few wetter years,others drier, yet it balances ,but somethings wrong here... So it's clearly not a lack of supply for a well blessed country in terms of water availability.

[@leifcian4288]

Landscape management.

[@annaredding]

In some places rains are more intense, so they escape to the sea before the land is able to absorb it. What falls down is not quite what is available.

[@walterlatham8851]

Surrounded by water , how about desalination plants . Can’t be done why? Because it make’s sense

[@RaRa-eu9mw]

and because desalinating seawater costs 10 times the amount of processing water from reservoirs.

[@davidadams5116]

The obvious solution is to make sure water is spread evenly across the country. This would be easily affordable by cancelling that white elephant HS2. The cost of this folly will end up closer to £150 billion not the original 80 billion it was supposed to cost. I am sure people would rather have a plentiful supply of water and their train journey take an extra 30 minutes. The alternative is quick trains and we all die of dehydration. Water is far more important than money and quicker trains. I just wish the Eton educated mob would realise this

[@malicant123]

There needs to be a serious and open conversation about immigration. There's not racist about it. The UK is full. Stop using climate change as an excuse for failed policies.

[@JetfireQuasar]

no wrong conversation, we aren't full just an acknowledgment that all population growth for the past 50 years has been immigration

[@scrumtious1]

Please show me the stats that prove that we are full.

[@traceyculyer5811]

Nearly 80 million people requiring water, sewage, electric , fuel and to be fed on a tiny Island, what could be the problem.

[@macklee6837]

Bro... at least comment that on a relevant vid

[@leifcian4288]

Immigration would be less of an issue if climate was less of an issue in other parts of the world. In principle it's reasonably simple to improve watershed issues in most parts of the world.

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

The ChrisBurns water system is what will change everything.

[@carolewynn9407]

Not sell off reservoirs for housing projects and big profits , build more, maintain pipes , clean drains so water can actually go down them.

[@colinmiller8361]

Four simple ways. 1 Force water companies to take on more repair crews to fix all leaks within days and not months. These extra crews can be paid for out of the immoral salaries and bonuses the company directors get and also by reducing the dividend share they give to their share holders. 2 When the water companies are seen to be doing their bit, then educate people to be aware of how to be more economical with water. 3 The average daily use of water per person, is in the region of 150 to 160 litres per day. The more people that are in the country means there is less water per person. 4 Invest in the de-salination of salt water. We are surrounded by it!

[@leifcian4288]

I use 3/4 cubic meters in a 3 month period which I think is comfortably under 40liters a day tops.

[@apocalypticweasel9078]

As a share holder i dispute number 1, however i do think directors should take a cut and their pay should be performance related ie linked to leak fixing. Number 4 never happen way to expensive for the UK and then theres the problem of what to do with the by product brine

[@colinmiller8361]

@@leifcian4288 Accepted but I did say average.

[@colinmiller8361]

@@apocalypticweasel9078 The brine could be treated and made into a form of salt to use on the roads in winter. We never seem to have enough. Anything else left, if it is salty. it can go back into the sea where it came from.

[@leifcian4288]

@@colinmiller8361 of course desalination of water is a massive energy drain. Improving landscape watersheds can potentially be an energy generation and storage solution in of itself. Vast amount of solar power drives the hydrological cycle..

[@jillchin1704]

Would it not be cheaper to move the people to the water?

[@kennethleitch8709]

Water companies need to be mandated to fix the mess they have created.

[@davidallen1418]

Of course losing 30% of your water stock decade after decade does not contribute to the shortage in anyway.

[@MelkorRules]

Keep your hands off the North's water. I would be fuming if I lived in Hull.

[@pnd7727]

Believe in the politicians they will fix all your problems. Lol

[@donaldboughton8686]

Step 1) Fix the godam leaks in the pipes. Step 2) Fine the water company CEO's based on the amount of water lost from leaks to provie an incentive to fix the leaks. The fines to be stopped out of the CEO's salary also make it illegal for the water company to reimburse the CEO's fines.

[@skippyripley1239]

Stop selling reservoirs & using land for housing...

[@aaronps4595]

I have halved my water consumption in my house just by using flow reducers, to the naked eye my shower and taps are releasing the same amount of water, but in actual fact over half less than usual and they are under £10 and easy to put in yourselves and saves money and water consumption in the long run? It might not be for everyone but hopefully this helps some people? 😉

[@phillyblunts1644]

Build some more reservoirs would help .. keep building new homes but no new water supply.. what could go wrong

[@TomNook.]

Less people, less demand

[@annaredding]

Great thought. Let's do a lottery- every second person commits pro social suicide.

[@handsfree1000]

We rarely have a serious water shortage in the area of Somerset I live in. The local reservoir was lower than normal in spring this year and now it is very low so this year there is a water shortage everywhere

[@tracyrussell4561]

Build more under ground reservoirs.

[@patgeraish1032]

Before به to late. Water plant like Israel. Dubai. Saudi Arabia. They used sea water to tackle water shortage.

[@Ifinkso]

A reservoir is a little lower in summer- wow amazing news who would have thought

[@bollocknaked1975]

A cloudbuster is a device designed by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), which Reich claimed could produce rain by manipulating what he called "orgone energy" present in the atmosphere.[1] Reich with one of his cloudbusters The cloudbuster was intended to be used in a way similar to a lightning rod: focusing it on a location in the sky and grounding it in some material that was presumed to absorb orgone-such as a body of water-would draw the orgone energy out of the atmosphere, causing the formation of clouds and rain. Reich conducted dozens of experiments with the cloudbuster, calling the research "Cosmic orgone engineering".[1]

[@theenchiladakid1866]

If it's not in the sky and it's not in rivers where is it?

[@mazdamaniac4643]

Building new pipelines is like plugging a leaky old rotten bucket with your fingers. Most of the water pipeline network in the UK is well past it's overhaul date, some of those pipes are ancient. Trillions of pinhole leaks and miles of porous old pipes stack up alongside faulty joints, which is why we loose over 3 billion litres of water every day before it gets anywhere near a tap. We need a thorough overhaul project to reduce this massive waste to an absolute minimum, which would drastically reduce the strain on existing reservoirs and water processing. The funds for it needs to come from reinvestment, instead of the current siphoning off of funds into greedy shareholder's wallets never to be seen again.

[@digitallifeline162]

We should use rainwater to flush toilets.

[@johnrussell3961]

Capture more where it’s needed. Flood large parts of the south.

[@ericritchie6783]

Need a decent series of catchments plotted out.

[@johncollins2037]

@@ericritchie6783 Brick the windows and doors up in the house of lords, its only about 100 Feet long, but full of hot air, scroungers of public money, that would be a good start, easy to do and save millions.

[@ericritchie6783]

@@johncollins2037 oh kay...

[@earnestequivocation6250]

Here’s a crazy left field idea…….the Corporate Lackey Society we laughingly call a govt could force the Water Cartel to repair pipes to stop 3.2 billion litres a day leaking! Crazy or what?

[@harrybuik9763]

In about 1969 tayside built the hugh dam at Blackwater reservoirs some question the sense 🤔 the water dept were 30 years a head of them self's as at that time wee were a wash with pure great water ,wee have to thank those people for there great vision 😀 👍

[@basilfawlty123]

We're an island, surrounded by the bleedin' stuff! It's not difficult to figure this out!

[@imperatorvespasian3125]

fine water companies 1 million per leak per day, the problem will magically fix itself

[@johncollins2037]

Sky news is more comical, than modern humour (which is not hard) Country in a drought and reporter lets tap water onto the ground/pad the building sits on.

[@lD-cf9mf]

Reserves are sold elsewhere

[@Reactivate100]

Stop the geo engineering 🤔

[@aeris...5389]

Stop water shortages drink soda instead

[@moms.gardenia]

Pipes and reservoirs. Also desalination.

[@eddiebyword3363]

Ban water leaks.

[@enochpowel3030]

We used to have sufficient water for our population

[@aliray1165]

Water companies: boil your rice and then feed your plants with any excess and instead of showering piss all over each other to stay cool. Me: why is there a leak in the road for the last two weeks pumping out gallons and gallons every minute? It’s flooding out at a rate of a firehouse and no one has done anything for 2 weeks!!!!

[@evolutiondl1492]

Crazy how this is becoming a problem in a first world country.

[@benbow7]

Import the third world, become the third world.

[@annaredding]

@@muttley1423 The trouble is that the finance sector is what makes UK a first world country, otherwise economy and social organisation is quite unimpressive.

[@Isabellecherry13]

Yeah u know Manchester literally has no water. Xx

[@nealc.6927]

Start building Desalination Plants! We're on a bloody island, surrounded by water ffs!!!!

[@scouseandrew1]

Couldn’t desalination be explored as option, as well as looking at the water infrastructure currently being used in Israel. Israel after all is a desert country with a water surplus. I am pretty sure if they can organize their water supply systems and infrastructure well, they should be able to advice us on what would work the best in the UK where we have better access.

[@michaelwhite6498]

Our water company applied to build a desalination plant. The enviromentalists stopped it. The water company planned a new reservoir, it is still being talked about. However they plan to get more water there are people prepared to stop it regardless.

[@scouseandrew1]

How did the environmentalists stop this out of interes, what grounds were usedt? The environmental impact of desalinated water use is still being investigated to my knowledge. The effects of using this technology our not fully known yet to dismiss it seems very short sighted.

[@scouseandrew1]

@baby blue. I would disagree because surely with the length of time desalination technology has been around surely they should have some idea of what the effects are before ruling it out as an option. To me this is a question of evidence and viability. To me it is ridiculous to argue environmental factors when no evidence this is the case exists and also that it has not been investigated whether this is financially viable. The idea also is to secure sources and avoid increasing bills as well. I fully understand if clear reasoning with evidence to support is offered but to cite non evidenced environmental factors is poor when exploring viable options of what will secure water supply for the future.

[@drone-vision]

Prevent leakages and collect more rain 🌧

[@davidlittlewood8850]

Invest some of the money in practical solutions. Vast underground steel storage so condensation doesn’t happen. New supply piping everywhere in the country , don’t forget water is the staple need for life 🌹

[@stumpytkd1774]

Force water companies to fix there massive underground leaks. And stop selling land and resovoirs to property developers greedy pricks

[@bluevozhak]

Massive infrastructural and environmentally sensible investment from the state and private firms. Channel water from surplus areas using miles of pipes or channels like in the USA from the Colorado river to Arizona that has created by proxy a forest corridor, new revivors, proactive planning, watershed regeneration, reforestation with native trees. Give contracts to local firms and help stimulate local jobs in the UK. All governments of all parties have been asleep at the wheel, letting the UK infrastructure crumble and companies plunder it for profit whilst underinvesting.

[@MG63]

We need to build more reservoirs as the UK population has exploded over many years. Desalination plants are other options although the huge cost and maintenance would inevitably result in a huge rise in water bills on top of the current huge water rates. Plus there are other arguments in relation to the very large amounts of energy that would be required to operate these plants and the environmental impact. The former is a better solution as after the reservoirs have been built they will become nature reserves and look natural in their rural settings.

[@stequality]

Won’t be a shortage it rains 300 days a year

[@kevindruce8915]

Thanks

[@garethtopham3830]

Build more reservoirs!!!!

[@annaredding]

That would spoil someone's backyard, like the wind turbines.

[@learningagain4094]

Build more water storage

[@hollyylloh515]

Stay happy with Sherpa 😇♥️🐕

[@resistancefighter9009]

Kick 'em out.

[@custossecretus5737]

Build underground reservoirs. By having a plan that is proactive rather than reactive. The daft thing is, our desalination plan is to have 4 up and running plants by 2050. By 2030 it’s expected that the one in operation in London will be underwater as London floods. £250m sunk.

[@yorkshirepudd7532]

That's easy take it from the North of England like everything else

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

Not my problem. I’m the customer.

[@derekevans6804]

why don,t we look at arab emirates no shortages there surrounded by sea

[@karlsanderson8127]

The south "by stealing it from the north"

[@leifcian4288]

Lol

[@bobbybates2614]

Build desalination plants

[@hellobanking802]

Anything to scare the public. Sky should be ashamed of themselves.

[@davidcwatkins5956]

Elephant in the room leaks, how many billions of gallons of water do the companies waste on leaks a year it’s all well and good moving about the water at the cost of billions and believe me that’s only a short term solution but in my opinion the money would be better spent improving and updating the infrastructure, and start investing in desalination plants after all we are an island surrounded by water, but what do I know I am only a common man.

[@grey_wind948]

Stop manipulating the weather with Cloud seeding and geo weather engineering!!!

[@tyethebalder5666]

We got to start building underground reservoirs like china and inda has done . water we can fill them no problem in winter to keep the water for summer to be pumped where its needed .

[@DiggerDan87]

Just saying that tap stop because he turned it haha

[@lD-cf9mf]

Stop selling the water elsewhere

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

the biggest user of water is the agriculture industry, so stop blaming ordinary people and start at who really is using most of the water

[@oursalvationisinunity6224]

We are divided and manipulated, but we can change everything, but only all together! Friends, the International Social Project CREATIVE SOCIETY is gaining tremendous momentum in the world. People from different countries, nationalities and religions are coming together to build a just society. Only together we can change our world!!!!!!!

[@b_vegan]

Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation. Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Methane is 25-100 times more destructive than CO2 on a 20 year time frame. Methane has a global warming potential 86 times that of CO2 on a 20 year time frame. Livestock is responsible for 65% of all human-related emissions of nitrous oxide - a greenhouse gas with 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years. Emissions for agriculture projected to increase 80% by 2050. US Methane emissions from livestock and natural gas are nearly equal. Cows produce 150 billion gallons of methane per day. Watch the Cowspiracy Documentary

[@ericritchie6783]

A lot of those figures are tied in with general surplus monocrop agriculture. Still battery farming is the absolute worst aspect of it all for sure.

[@DgurlSunshine]

STOP DESTROYING PURE WATER FOR TOXIC ENERGY! DERP!!! COMMON SENSE!

[@xelthiavice4276]

importing many more milloins of immigrent to a small island will surely help

[@annaredding]

It should. Maybe they would fix the leaks, since someone needs to do manual labour.

[@xelthiavice4276]

@@annaredding unlikely as most if not all are uneducated and just come to live off the benefit system

[@michaelharvey75]

Control the population. .

[@annaredding]

Or perhaps 'control the government so they do their job?'

[@jesuschrist6954]

Conver salt water

[@jchendrix]

Simple - Stop global warming

[@b_vegan]

Animal Agriculture is responsible for 20%-33% of all fresh water consumption in the world today. Growing feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of water in the US. Californians use 1500 gallons of water per person per day. Close to Half is associated with meat and dairy products. 2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of beef. 477 gallons of water are required to produce 1lb. of eggs; almost 900 gallons of water are needed for 1lb. of cheese. 1,000 gallons of water are required to produce 1 gallon of milk. 5% of water consumed in the US is by private homes. 55% of water consumed in the US is for animal agriculture. Watch the Cowspiracy Documentary

[@MyName-cw4yr]

False

[@therealryan1329]

Easy, we just grow more water Duh

[@annaredding]

There would not be enough workers to pick it. Maybe we can just print it...?

[@designbydamonshad0wcube308]

We are an Island make a damn machine that purifys sea water

[@pittuk6500]

I know, i know! By eating ze bugz???

[@JetfireQuasar]

cant do that there's no standing water for them to breed in :P

[@richardanthonygilbey]

⭐️ Be prepared for the murkiest scam.

[@johnbest4513]

Lets protect the environment by building a massive pipe through it.

[@gooderspitman8052]

Drink less? What utter bollocks, fix the leakages first, re-nationalise hen build the correct infrastructure. They’re sorted. 🤣

[@daviddalby9699]

Durrrrrr yes