The water shortage problem in the south-east calls out for big,courageous and dramatic solutions. So don’t hold your breathBehold, the time-honoured journalistic rain dance. The day after reporting on the driest winter for 20 years, and my colleague Helen Pidd tweeted a picture of Manchester’s weather forecast: rain clouds all this week. And I had barely finished interviewing farmers about our parched spring when droplets fell from the sky.
But a few showers won’t wash absent the elephant in the room when we consider the housing crisis in south-east England. As the parties scramble to outbid each other’s manifesto commitments: what about water? Related: UK farmers call for cross-country pipelines after driest winter in 20 years Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com