Got a point... water to Scotland is like coals to Newcastle

Musing on being held up by a lorry ferrying Eden Spring water, Walton Pantland explores the implications further, and deserves to be heard on this.

So you have stolen water from a drought-ridden part of the world being imported to one of the most drenched. Water is already a major source of conflict in the Middle East, with Israel 'making the desert bloom' by stealing most of the Jordan.

The Highlands of Scotland are saturated with clean fresh water. It falls from the skies, it squelches underfoot, and streams, burns and rivers are full of it. If you need to drink from a water cooler, it's not as if Scottish companies don't bottle the stuff.

But I'm sure it makes good market sense.

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