Professor John Robertson OBA
Today, England’s water deficit is exciting headlines across the UK media but we saw similar warnings more than five years ago:
In 2019, I wrote:
From @ArchbishopStua1 (Who could he be teasing there?) today, this:
Without significant action, the National Audit Office (NAO) forecasts that the total water demand will start to exceed supply in England no later than 2034. Be under no illusion English Privatised Water Companies need access to the water in Scotland.
and from the Guardian in June 2023:
Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic
In the above, there’s a link to this from March 2019:
England could run short of water within 25 years
There are no references to Scotland in the above and only two to our higher rainfall in the first.
That’s remarkable given this:
Scotland has more than 30,000 freshwater lochs, ranging from small lochans to the likes of Loch Ness and Loch Lomond. Loch Ness is the largest loch by volume – it contains more water (7,452 million cubic metres) than all English and Welsh lakes together.
They’ll try to drain Wales first as it’s nearer but massive water pipes will run alongside the electricity cables from Scotland, and the propaganda to persuade enough Scots to believe we need them more than they need us will be ratchetted up.
How will Reporting Scotland explain it?
England helps take the pressure off Scotland’s dangerously over-filled lakes (sic) and aging, poorly maintained, water works
Has anything changed in these five or more years.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Any bets that someone ( Daily Wail ? ) will soon suggest that Scottish Water be labelled Great British Water !
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THEY are already stealing our water. There are two masive pipes going south already. Been there for about 20 years. I know people that laid them. Sc ottish Wa ter will deny it.
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” Has anything changed in these five or more years “, yep, the headache got bigger…
HMG are going to get reservoirs built…… eventually…. but… where’s the supply going to come from ?
If memory serves to give some sense of scale, Kielder Water holds about 200 billion litres in ca 10 sq km…. So if the objective is to hold 4 days supply at say 5bn litres per day, they only need find 1 sq km of land very high up in NIMBY land, and it’ll all be sorted by whenever… but where’s the supply coming from ?
Scotland is a non-starter as it’s too far to pump, borderline for Wales but they can’t support that volume…. There’s only the sea….. Why didn’t somebody think of that nearly 50 years ago….. 🙄
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England wants data centres using huge volumes of water (and Scotlands cheap electricity).
England want nuke reactors requiring lots of guaranteed clean water, but high enough off the sea so global warming does not flood the stations.
England needs lots of new reservoirs but don’t want to give up land in the precious “thatched cottage” countryside.
England legally imports 750,000 new people every year, mostly to London and the south, but don’t want Scotland to have a visa scheme (which works in Canada for example).
Water, we are told, is too expensive to pump????? (syphon?)
England expects……Scottish electricity will power desalination for the Anglos, and Scots will have to pay extra to provide it.
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