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Re:Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for pickin... by Symbiote on Sunday September 28, 2025 @07:18AM (#45403504)
There is an impending water shortage in Britain — since the water companies were privatized, they stopped building additional reservoir capacity.
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Re:Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for pickin... by keanb on Sunday September 28, 2025 @07:53AM (#45403668)
Maybe they should stop the massive increase in population if it cannot be sustained by the resources in the island.
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Re:Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for pickin... by ben_w on Monday September 29, 2025 @08:16AM (#45412768)
"if" is doing the heavy lifting there.

The privatised water companies chose to stop building additional reservoir capacity. From what I've read, the UK pipes currently leak about the same percentage of the water going through them, as the percentage by which the population went up since privatisation.

It's money and incentives, not a property of the geography.

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Re:Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for pickin... by graemep on Sunday September 28, 2025 @08:28AM (#45403848)
When they try to they get stopped by NIMBYs.
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