You turn on your tap for water, but nothing comes out. Instead you must queue in the streets to receive water from a standpipe and carry it in a bucket back to your home.
Maybe, maybe the solution would be more privatization. Let the market solve the problem, yadayada giggledown economics every time prices go up and so. /s
I thing I’m starting to understand why Brits travel a lot to southern Europe during summer, they are thirsty and needing of bath? /s
We need to build more reservoirs, renationalise water (do it stealthily if the government can’t afford it by imposing all fines as undilutable shares), and fix the crazy levels of leakage we have
Clickbait nonsense. The article itself is a rebuttal of its own headline.
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It’s late summer 2026 and Britain is in the midst of a [heatwave](https://inews.co.uk/topic/heatwave?srsltid=AfmBOoqU0A_DV177KB5a_zcX-SIEz7UqiENm6lMkTxqd-1Xs-V9EzYrf&ico=in-line_link).
You turn on your tap for water, but nothing comes out. Instead you must queue in the streets to receive water from a standpipe and carry it in a bucket back to your home.
This is an extreme, worst-case scenario, but is something scientists warn could plausibly happen if the [current dry weather ](https://inews.co.uk/news/mini-heatwave-expected-last-thunderstorms-loom-3687006?srsltid=AfmBOorQAh7xeAp1cKef2ZRBWN9xpHMUBhB9EoY9g7EzZngy840rorm3&ico=in-line_link)continues into next year.
Britain has been here before: in the summer of 1976 a prolonged [drought ](https://inews.co.uk/topic/drought?srsltid=AfmBOoosUTmp7MvqRgJzKHlyqPQH4PAQ4Xz7xh0gId30dICvgthU7huB&ico=in-line_link)that started the summer before led to the taps running dry.
Major upgrades are needed to Britain’s old, leaky infrastructure to prevent this happening again as th[e UK’s weather becomes more extreme](https://inews.co.uk/topic/extreme-weather?ico=in-line_link).
With the UK currently experiencing its[ driest spring in over a century](https://inews.co.uk/news/summer-hosepipe-bans-loom-dry-spell-3668584?srsltid=AfmBOorxmAWelME3yKKZr2_0KicKX3IoNlZuqUjTBXEsSVXNau0YwpuB&ico=in-line_link), early alarm bells are starting to sound over [the country’s water supply](https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/five-areas-run-out-water-2050-3659934?srsltid=AfmBOoq6YREUwjlbefSd7MTAin89eELDPRCm5rTGhuoX33Xj7TSX9sc-&ico=in-line_link).
Maybe, maybe the solution would be more privatization. Let the market solve the problem, yadayada giggledown economics every time prices go up and so. /s
I thing I’m starting to understand why Brits travel a lot to southern Europe during summer, they are thirsty and needing of bath? /s
We need to build more reservoirs, renationalise water (do it stealthily if the government can’t afford it by imposing all fines as undilutable shares), and fix the crazy levels of leakage we have
Clickbait nonsense. The article itself is a rebuttal of its own headline.
What?omigod
That was a close one!
Scotland’s water is already nationalised.
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