内容摘要：In France, sentences are not served consecutively. Public prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger noted last week that had Le Scouarnec been on trial in the US - where people serve one prison sentence after another - he may have faced a sentence of over 4,000 years.

In France, sentences are not served consecutively. Public prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger noted last week that had Le Scouarnec been on trial in the US - where people serve one prison sentence after another - he may have faced a sentence of over 4,000 years.

, according to the Environment Agency, which says it is watching the situation closely in other regions.Extra demand from new houses, data centres and other sectors could further squeeze supplies, but no major reservoirs have been completed in England since 1992, shortly after the water sector was privatised.

Last year the government and water companies announced proposals to build nine new reservoirs by 2050.Together they have the potential to provide 670 million litres of extra water per day, they say.That's in addition to the Havant Thicket reservoir project in Hampshire, which is already under way and is expected to be completed by 2031.

The government also says that it intends to pass legislation to automatically make the other seven proposed reservoirs "nationally significant", so the final decision would be taken by national government."Reservoir projects are very complex infrastructure projects that are slow to take forward, and so anything that can be done to streamline that process can be a positive thing," said David Porter, senior vice president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

The water industry has also welcomed the announcement.

"It's absolutely critical that we build these reservoirs now," David Henderson, chief executive of Water UK, told BBC News.But of the small few who have managed to leverage that chaos to their advantage, none have benefitted more than Lee.

Now the controversial presidential candidate awaits the verdict on his political future - not only from the South Korean people, but also the courts.If his guilty ruling is ultimately confirmed, Lee will likely lose his seat in the National Assembly. As a candidate, that would prevent him from running for president for a period of five years.

But with the courts having now approved Lee's request to postpone his legal hearings until after the election, another possibility has emerged: that Lee, who remains the electoral favourite, could be convicted after winning the presidency.And that could mean that South Korea, having just endured a months-long period of political turmoil, may not be done with its leadership dramas just yet.