If you prefer your Armageddon a little less political, check out the doom monged by @TheENDSReport this morning:
1/7 It looks like northern England could face water shortages by 2030
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2/7 But of course we've known about the looming crisis for ages. Here's @theresecoffey Coffey in 2017 saying England could face a “water deficit of 8-22% of total water demand by the 2050s". While London could see a of defecit 132.7Ml/d by 2020
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3/7 More recently, @EnvAgency chair @JamesBevanEA warned of an impending 'jaws of death' water scarcity scenario endsreport.com/article/158561…
4/7 We've been reporting this stuff for years, including on the death of England's chalk streams
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Finally today, a water company agrees that the abstraction status quo is "unsustainable"
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5/7 Groundwater overall is in trouble too. It will be recharging less often in the near future, according to a new @EnvAgency report
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6/7 But there WILL be water. Lots of it, just not necessarily at the right time or in the right places. Expect more floods says the EA and 2 new studies in Nature
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nature.com/articles/s4161…
7/7 It's all a bit hell and high water today I'm afraid, sorry about that. If you're wondering who's going to feel the brunt first, you could do worse than look to coast:
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I'm off to build a floating desalination plant
#WWWeek
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