Without a sewage collection tanker that only has to travel for 10 miles on existing roads we wouldn’t haven’t a disposal system.  If the tanker had to travel 1,000 miles then our only option would be to discharge into the river.

The roads we do have weren’t built by me, nor by my neighbours but were financed by tens of thousands of people living in a very small area.  If instead of more than a million people living in Surrey there were just a hundred thousand then there wouldn’t be the money available either to build nor maintain the roads.

Without the money to lay pipes, build the reservoirs and water purification plants then again we would have to rely on the river for water.

We are fortunate with our climate, so could probably grow enough to live on.  With such a small population electricity would be a no no. Couldn’t even run a generator as there wouldn’t be a garage at the end of the road that didn’t exist.

Now imagine such a low population density and multiply distances by a hundred and you get an idea of the problems faced by individuals in rural areas of Africa.  They are not just sat around all day doing nothing - they work all the hours of the day just to grow the crops, rear the animals and collect the water to survive.  

The biggest danger is that more and more leave the rural areas to move to cities where the infrastructure does exist but without the work to provide employment for all.  If you want to get the infrastructure into these places then you will also have to accept that employment will move from the first world countries to the developing ones, as is being demonstrated by China and India.  Of course the cry then goes up that the competition isn’t fair because these countries are using cheap labour.