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Originally Posted by ntluser
We definitely need to build desalination plants.
It's pointless building more reservoirs and adopting efficient water economy measure if there is inadequate rainfall and no water in the first place.
Desalination plants are expensive to build but then so are nuclear power plants and we still build those.
It's ironic and pathetic that, as an island surrounded by water, we should have a water shortage.
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The UK doesn't have a water shortage, just parts of it. To be fair the last time this sort of thing happened was in 1976 wasn't it? Hardly a regular event then.....