How can the UK safe its water provide as droughts get extra frequent?

Local weather change and a rising inhabitants imply the UK wants long-term options like new reservoirs and desalination crops, not simply short-term fixes like hosepipe bans

People sitting on parched grass in Greenwich Park, London

England’s driest July since 1935 has left the grass parched in Greenwich Park, London

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Regardless of the favored notion of the UK as a moist, wet nation, there are massive regional variations in rainfall patterns and droughts are nothing new. A parliamentary committee has even warned that some components of England may run out of water by 2040.

Local weather change is resulting in hotter, drier summers like the present one, and summer season rainfall in England is predicted to decline roughly 15 per cent by the 2050s. This pattern, and the …