So what benefits does this offer Cymru?

Scientists predict that because of the increasing water shortage, water will become the most sought-after natural resource and will likely cause conflict in the 21st century. 

Water is the most valuable commodity a nation can have; those nations without it will struggle to thrive. Moreover, global water demand is increasing at 2.3 per cent annually, doubling every 21 years. ''Supply can no longer keep up with this growth rate,'' the World Bank warns.

Recently, plans for a massive new pipeline to transfer water from Cymru to London and other parts of southeast England by United Utilities, Severn Trent Water and Thames Water, who are liaising over the project, designed to ease the threat of water restrictions in southern England. If the proposals materialise, up to 155 million litres per day could be diverted from the Vyrnwy reservoir to the Thames basin. So what benefits does this offer Cymru?

Brit unionists have always told Welsh nationalists that we can't survive without England; we're too small and poor and have nothing significant to offer except sheep. Yet here we are with England wanting more of our water, a natural resource that Cymru has in abundance, a valuable commodity that they need to thrive or even survive as a prosperous nation.

Cymru holds the trump card here, a sought-after natural resource that will only increase in value. Water could be considered more valuable than oil or gold in the future. Our little old country could become very wealthy if we protected our water and stopped it from being syphoned away by our thirsty, thieving neighbour. The Welsh Government needs to wake up and realise that our water can transform Cymru into a wealthy nation.

Powys Council is on the right track - A Welsh council wants to tax companies which take its water and energy for use elsewhere. Powys council said it had written to the Welsh and UK governments asking for permission.

England must realise that Cymru is not their property to plunder; we hold the key to their future survival. Their saviour is called water, Welsh water, and they must learn to pay for it, and in an independent republic of Cymru, they will.