It uses about 5 litres of water to flush a toilet, so people in the South of England could save a lot of water by pissing on Margaret Thatcher’s grave instead.

Since privatisation. The water industry has sold of 30 resivoires. For development. Just to put money into shareholders pockets.

Remember this every time the blame the lack of resivoires for water shortages. We had the storage to cope.

If you read the Government doc linked near the top of the Guardian article, you find this little gem:

“A further one billion litres a day will also be needed to generate energy, grow our food, and power emerging technologies.”

Basically things will be worse because a load of water is going to be consumed by AI data centers.

UK households use more water, mostly on showering and bathing, than other comparable European countries, at about 150 litres a day per capita. For France the average is 128, Germany 122 and Spain 120 (although in Italy its 243 litres a day).

Meh. I’m sure that we use more than that in the US.

kagis

https://www.epa.gov/watersense/understanding-your-water-bill

The average American uses around 82 gallons per day per person in the household.

So 310 liters, over double the British average.

https://www.arizonafuture.org/progress-meters/natural-resources/water-use/

It looks like people in Phoenix, Arizona average something like 150 gallons/day for residential stuff, almost twice that again, and they live in a desert.