The surprising results come from a survey conducted by One Poll on behalf of the Science Museum, reports the Daily Mail. Three thousand adults responded to the survey, and overwhelmingly, the one thing Britons said they could not live without was sunshine, a nod to the infamous British weather.
The thirst to be connected pushed having an Internet connection to second place, coming in above clean drinking water, which was third. Also cool to the British were fridges, which came in fourth.
Facebook took the fifth spot, ahead of flushing toilets at No 9.
The museum's Exhibition Manager, Ms Sarah Richardson told the Daily Mail that she found the results "crazy", and "to say you can't live without material things over drinking water is crazy."
The survey was conducted in an attempt to highlight the things that the West take for granted, and was done in conjunction with the Science Museum's new exhibition, Water Wars: Fight the Food Crisis. The exhibition highlights the problem of water scarcity worldwide and its effects on food production, and the technologies used to solve it.
"It seems having fresh drinking water is something that many of us take for granted but is becoming scarcer in many parts of the world. If you see how little water others have to drink or grow food you soon realise water is fast becoming a luxury for millions", added Ms Richardson.
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