• OwlPaste@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Privatising Thames water is the reason our infrastructure is not capable dealing with a lower rainfall. Maybe if they built enough reservoirs and foxe dtheir damn leaks, we wouldn’t be shitting ourselves and wondering if showering is okay.

    ps i don’t even have a hose

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      5 days ago

      It’s more the hottest summer in at least 141 years, preceded by the driest spring in 132 years, with the 3 hottest springs all occurring since 2017. In addition, a century of intensive farming has used up the residual groundwater in many places.

      A nationalised water system would be just as - if not more - investment averse. Look to the RAAC situation, or British Rail. Privatisation is not the root cause of the drought.