HOW would you feel if your water supply was cut off, without warning, with no idea of when it might resume, and you were forced to rely on emergency bottled water?
Tens of thousands of people in Kent found themselves in this exact scenario last week. While the shortage was due to equipment failure, within the next few decades this could be the reality of daily life in Britain.
Uncontrolled mass migration is putting enormous pressure on our ageing water infrastructure. The last new major reservoir in England was built in 1992. Since then, our political elites have allowed at least a net 8,022,000 people to migrate to the UK (those we know of). The actual numbers could be far higher; Thames Water, in a bid to predict future demand, estimates around 1 in 12 London residents are illegal immigrants.
The Environment Agency predicts England will have a shortfall of 5,000,000,000 litres of water every single day by 2055.
If every reservoir currently planned in England is actually built, they could provide a maximum of 670,000,000 additional litres of water every day – nowhere near the shortfall.
The government is sleepwalking into a scenario where water shortages are unavoidable through its unwillingness to get a grip on the migration fiasco.
We are already being told to prepare for drought conditions next year. England, a nation famous for its rain, is expecting water shortages simply because it has too many residents and not enough infrastructure to store rainfall. This is utterly unsustainable.
Last month’s Office for National Statistics estimates show a significant fall in net migration – 204,000 net migrants in the year ending June 2025. This just delays our water shortage crisis, rather than solving it. 204,000 people is still a city the size of York, which must be provided with food, water, energy and other services.
On our current path, sooner or later, the taps will run dry. Or our political elites can wake up, stop the tide of mass uncontrolled migration, and give England the breathing space it needs to catch up with our disastrous infrastructure shortfall.
