The Great Water Hysteria

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Currently we are having to watch mass hysteria in London. It’s about water.

Apparently we need to save it or the world will end.

We are given lots of advice about how to save it. Yeah, there’s the usual about not leaving a hose-pipe emptying non-stop into a garden – and that kind of makes sense – but the mad people have taken it further than that.

We must reduce the water in our baths, kettles, and dishwashers, and stop flushing our toilets. Sticky stinky poohs must fester away for days before being guiltily flushed away. We must clean our teeth with sand, never leave the tap running, and use dry stones to beat the dirt out of our clothes.

Of course, the non-freethinkers get caught up in this madness and believe it all. They want to do their bit. They believe we are at some point of crisis, and, as I said, the world is about to end.

So. Time for the reality check.

Ok, first thing is we live on a planet which has over 70% of the surface covered in water. Yep, water is the stuff that dominates. It ain’t going away anytime soon. There’s 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 litres of it (give or take a few bottles).

Next, we live in a country, and a part of that country which has a huge amount of rainfall annually. We are not in a place where water rarely drops. It comes down by the bucket load. Trust me, I know. I’ve got a large hole in my roof. Even if we accept that cyclically there is slightly less rainfall from one year to another, there is still more than enough rainfall to drown every human being in London.

Now, there have been traditional methods used to suck up this water and squeeze it into pipes to get it into people’s homes. But, surprise surprise, the high profit-making water utility companies haven’t kept up with the changes needed to capture said water. Too late they have realised that their sources are ‘drying up’. Of course, making proper provision for this and building alternative methods of capturing adequate supplies of the water that falls down upon us would have cost money. The constant chasing of the constant changing sources of water should be their job. It’s what we pay them to do. But no, they did nothing, until they’d sucked the old wells and places full of water dry.

To hide from their responsibility, the old chestnut of global warming has been trotted out as the ’cause’. And we know how the mad people love to fear global warming! Hence why the naughty water utility companies are able to hide the truth of how the chasing of their millions in profit has been the single cause of their inability to meet the demands for water consumption in the UK. It’s absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with global warming, climate change, or pigmies from space. Yet, the mad people don’t want to believe that, they love the idea that some natural (or preferably man-made) disaster is taking all the water away from us. Moreover, they believe we are all doomed.

For my part in this hysteria, well, I’m flushing that loo as often as I want. When I clean the last remaining teeth in my mouth, wow do I leave that tap running on full. As for the shower, the bath, yep you got it, full on, full up to the brim, overflowing and cascading onto the rooms below me. I refuse to be conned and sucked in to this madness and collection of lies.