If it comes to that you'll have to sell your house to pay your water bill!
Desalinisation plants use horrendous amounts of fuels and produce an unmanageable amount of waste.
For all the 'everyone doing the bit' effort, there's another story that will make you wonder why you bother. I'm involved in a project at a Premier League football club where they are extracting eye watering amounts of water from the ground to water their training pitches. As part of the test...
To take it back to the BBC story, yes it will. And so will countless other countries.
The way we look after our most important natural resource is criminal, have a look at rich areas where there is no rainfall. Las Vegas, Dubai, etc, no water except for whats extracted from the ground and...