Why is the UK facing water shortages despite record rainfall?
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Climate breakdown, an increasing population and a lack of new infrastructure are factors contributing to water scarcity.
By Helena Horton, Environment reporter
After months of deluge it seems incomprehensible that the UK could face water shortages in the event of a hot and dry spring and summer.
With an increasing population, a trend of ‘all or nothing’ rain caused by climate breakdown and a lack of investment in infrastructure, we do not keep the water that falls on our island, but let it wash out to sea.
Drier countries must look on in disbelief as this rainy isle lets the ever more precious resource flow down rivers and out of the country, leading to hosepipe bans and potentially more dire consequences in the summer. Here are some major reasons:
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