Water shortages, illegal immigrants exacerbate the situation?

I wish to refer to your report, It's worse than 1998, 80 days of water left. and I agree we are indeed in dire straits. With timber continuously being felled due to concessions being awarded annually to Timber corporations, compounded with illegal logging rampant in the catchment areas nationwide, an imminent emergency situation now seems more likely than ever.

However, I would like to point out some statistics put up to explain the increasing water shortages, and I quote, " ... During the country’s worst recorded water crisis in 1998, 4.2 million people had to survive on 2,553 million litres per day (MLD), a shortage of 105 MLD. This time around, 7.1 million people need 4,900 MLD but only 4,367 MLD is available – a shortage of 533 MLD...." This is a critical situation, but I think it's even more critical than the statistics have painted. Did LUAS include the 2 million or more, registered and illegal foreign workers that we have 'imported' since 1998? Foreigners are not included in the official census of the State, correct me if I am wrong, and if we include the water requirements of the aliens working and staying here, ie., 7.1million +2 million, our current expected water shortage would be even more severe.

I am not sure then, if an Emergency situation already exist, are we not cognizant of the fact? The public would require some assurance from the authorities on this, and expect the correct decision to be taken to ameliorate our sufferings based on accurate facts.

Precious resource: what about the foreign workers?