Environment Agency: You Will Drink Treated Raw Sewage and Be Happy - Because Climate Change

Hot on the heels of Pol Pot Belly telling us we will freeze this winter and be happy - because evil Putin Nazi and Global Warming - the head of the Environment Agency now informs us that we must drink recycled sewage because of climate change.

People must be ‘less squeamish’ about drinking water from sewage, says agency boss

Squeamish? No, I’m not squeamish. I’m not eating bugs and I’m not drinking recently flushed human effluent, no matter how ‘safely recycled’. End of. FRO, go forth and multiply etc., etc. I’ll put a bucket outside to capture the rain water which these lying zealots say does not exist and grow my own food rather than submitting to such deprivations. No doubt they’ll tell me I can’t ‘illegally divert’ the water which falls from the heavens or grow my own food without a licence. Let them try that. Just let them try.

Britons need to be “less squeamish” about drinking water derived from sewage, the head of the Environment Agency has said.

Sir James Bevan outlined measures ministers, water companies and ordinary people should take to avoid severe droughts.

He believes homeowners must seriously consider drinking recycled lavatory water or face the threat of shortages in as little as 20 years.

Suppliers are planning “toilet-to-tap” systems that will turn sewage from lavatories, sinks and bathtubs into drinking water by treating it.

Writing in The Sunday Times Sir James, the agency’s chief executive, said: “We will need to be less squeamish about where our drinking water comes from.

It’s the usual arrogant, dismissive spiel from the privileged ruling elite to the peasantry: put up and shut up. Why? Because it’s ‘necessary’ for the greater good, to preserve a dwindling resource. Because science and facts and evidence and experts and stuff - and because we know best.

“Part of the future solution will be to reprocess the water that results from sewage treatment and turn it back into drinking water.”

He said it was “perfectly safe and healthy, but not something many people fancy”.

It is hoped that the measure will ease the pressure on rivers, groundwater and reservoirs, which are being depleted by climate change.

‘Depleted by climate change’ eh? That can only mean that there is less water going into our rivers, ground water reserves and reservoirs because it is raining less. Sure, really hot summers might evaporate some surface water, but that is a minor issue. the major issue is supply of water - all year round, not just in summer. So let’s look at the supply issue shall we. The Met Office provide us with this graph of annual precipitation since 1836:

Notice something? Yeah, it got wetter, not drier.

“Yebbut, this is for the UK as a whole, not England, where climate changed droughts are really becoming a problem.” Hmmm:

“Yebbut, this is for England as a whole, not SE England, where climate changed droughts are really becoming a problem.” Hmmm.

This is the annual precipitation data for central and SE England for 2000 to 2021 (last column highlighted yellow):

Here’s the same for the years 1836 to 1875:

Only two years where the annual total was above 1000mm and several years where it was below 600mm. Compare this with the 21st century data: four years above 1000mm and no years where the total fell below 600mm. Conclusion: the 19th century was much drier in central and SE England than the early 21st century, which is allegedly the era of the Climate Changed Drought.

“Yebbut, this is annual precipitation, not summer, when climate changed droughts are really becoming a problem.” Hmmm.

No overall long term trend. Similarly with Spring and Autumn:

The only season where we see a definite trend to wetter conditions is during winter, when reservoirs, rivers and ground sources should be replenished:

So, Mr Head of the Environment Agency: what’s happening to all our lovely free water that drops out of our leaden grey winter skies such that we are now forced to drink treated raw sewage? Because it ain’t ‘climate change’ wot stole it, that’s for damn sure, you lying sod.

Update

Here it is, straight from the knighted horse’s mouth, as published originally in the Sunday Times:

This is nature giving us a wake-up call. It is a stark reminder that the climate emergency is real; that it has real-world consequences for people, wildlife, our economies and our way of life; and that we need to tackle it urgently. We can tackle the climate emergency and its consequences, such as the risks of future droughts, but if we are to do so successfully, our thinking needs to change faster than the climate.

Having enough water is at the heart of the climate emergency and an existential challenge. If we don’t change gears and step up now, we will hit what I’ve called the “Jaws of Death”. This is the point on the graph in every water company’s business plan where — in about 20 years’ time — the rising demand for water caused by increased population and development will overtake supply, which is at increasing risk due to climate change. At that point, there will simply not be enough water to meet the needs of the public, businesses and farmers, and nature.

Lies. Mismanagement of resources, land use, population growth (immigration mainly) and spells of hot, dry weather are the reasons for the pressure on water supplies this summer, not climate change.