Sewage, shortages and spills: how UK water companies have failed
Is this a moment of reckoning for the UK’s water industry?
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“We don’t want to run out of water”: tackling the UK’s drought problem
As we face increased flooding and heatwaves, investment in our water infrastructure is urgently needed.
How much raw sewage is being released into the sea?
As the rain returns to drought-parched England and Wales, so has the sewage.
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Britain’s hosepipe bans are nothing next to global water shortages
Britons face severe water-use restrictions, but the consequences of drought, from the US to China, are far worse.
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From drought to energy bills, inflation to the NHS, Britain is falling apart at the seams
In 2010 the Tories came to power under the slogan “We can’t go on like this”. This is the situation…
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Europe’s worst drought on record needs to trigger a flood of climate action
We should consider this a warning.
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How Britain can prevent drought
From beavers to water butts, the UK needs to drastically rethink how it protects its most precious resource.
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In a drying world can humans learn to adapt?
From Alaska to Texas and Delhi to Nottinghamshire, heatwaves and drought caused by climate change are transforming the way we…
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Drought pulls Europe’s farmers to the front line of a drying world
Heatwaves and low rainfall are forcing farmers in rich nations to use methods usually suggested to those in East Africa.
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