In article ,
Gavin Staples writes:
If a national water grid had been constructed after the 1976 drought then
Britain would not have this problem. Typical of this country not to think
beyond the length of the noses of a poltician.

I suppose that it was a question of weighing up the very large cost of
such a project against projections of future levels of water use and
future climate. I don't think that the case for building a national
water grid following 1976 was so clear cut as you're implying. Back
then, the existence of GW wasn't so well established as it is now, and
it wasn't obvious that we'd face so severe a drought again within our
lifetimes. It's easy to be wise with the benefit of hindsight.

The counter argument, of course, is that it was fairly certain that the
demand for water would continue to grow, so that even if the climate
didn't change we were eventually likely to run into trouble.
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