Maybe I/we should just ignore this kind of thing as once more a nice, young, liberal, educated Guardian writer, yesterday, revealed the underlying Anglocentrism of their mindset. There’s not a mention of Scotland despite its inclusion as also dry and cracking in the illustration. Even I know that with only a word or two your AI illustrator could have made the map just England if you have no intention of mentioning the other three parts of the Union.
Why might she have mentioned Scotland in thinking about how England might survive?
England facing the ‘Jaws of Death’ as water runs out in only 20 years now and Scotland’s 30 000 freshwater lochs replace oil, gas and renewables in the struggle for independence
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.
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. 1/https://t.co/OgsTaknUBj.
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
There are supposedly 31460 lochs in Scotland Loch Ness is one and three quarter cubic miles and could supply the whole the British mainland for 25 years
Yes I think this the final battleground
Welcome to England The country that steals everything from Scotland
Ye, Just one loch (Lomond or Ness ??) holds more fresh water than all the rivers and lakes in England combined
BTW I sent the following complaint to them earlier today. I have had previous success getting them to change a story about National Highways not being UK wide.
“Hello
The graphic used with this story is a map of a parched UNITED KINGDOM whereas the story only relates to ENGLAND. This misleading graphic perpetuates the misunderstanding especially by people from outside the UK but sadly within England that the UK, Great Britain and England are one and the same.
Its misuse also shows great disrespect to the citizens of the other Home countries.”
Any huge water pipes built to take Scottish Water south to England’s deserts will have a reciprocal function as per Better Together ; we will give them clean , fresh Scottish Water and in return they will pump north their excess sewage ! Fair exchange , eh !
Can we please apply some common sense to this hoary old chestnut of Scottish Water being pumped to the south of england where they are in reality already out of water, energy and time – How much energy would be required to shift millions of tons 400 miles even if you had all the infrastructure in place – It’s quite simply impractical, even a fleet of road or sea tankers would struggle to supply emergency watering stations.
The only viable solution for the south of england is the same one proposed to HMG in the 1980s, new nuclear energy generation stations and desalination plants, didn’t that go well.
It’s going to cost a fortune and will take at least a decade to build, hence the big ‘sell’ of SMRs…..
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Not just Scotland, they’ve kept in Wales & NI as well.
They managed to keep the ROI off the map, though.
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There are supposedly 31460 lochs in Scotland Loch Ness is one and three quarter cubic miles and could supply the whole the British mainland for 25 years
Yes I think this the final battleground
Welcome to England The country that steals everything from Scotland
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Ye, Just one loch (Lomond or Ness ??) holds more fresh water than all the rivers and lakes in England combined
BTW I sent the following complaint to them earlier today. I have had previous success getting them to change a story about National Highways not being UK wide.
“Hello
The graphic used with this story is a map of a parched UNITED KINGDOM whereas the story only relates to ENGLAND. This misleading graphic perpetuates the misunderstanding especially by people from outside the UK but sadly within England that the UK, Great Britain and England are one and the same.
Its misuse also shows great disrespect to the citizens of the other Home countries.”
Stewart McMutrie
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Any huge water pipes built to take Scottish Water south to England’s deserts will have a reciprocal function as per Better Together ; we will give them clean , fresh Scottish Water and in return they will pump north their excess sewage ! Fair exchange , eh !
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Can we please apply some common sense to this hoary old chestnut of Scottish Water being pumped to the south of england where they are in reality already out of water, energy and time – How much energy would be required to shift millions of tons 400 miles even if you had all the infrastructure in place – It’s quite simply impractical, even a fleet of road or sea tankers would struggle to supply emergency watering stations.
The only viable solution for the south of england is the same one proposed to HMG in the 1980s, new nuclear energy generation stations and desalination plants, didn’t that go well.
It’s going to cost a fortune and will take at least a decade to build, hence the big ‘sell’ of SMRs…..
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