What a shower!

SIX of the ten wettest years in UK history have occurred since 1998. October 2020 was the wettest month on record for many parts of England. This year, though still in its infancy, is already proving to be uncommonly soggy.

So why on earth are we being warned to brace ourselves for another summer of drought and hosepipe bans? We can put a man on the moon, yet apparently don’t have the gumption to respond to warmer weather by improving our water storage capacity. It simply beggars belief.

Water companies, many foreign owned, have made a fat living from catching and selling a natural resource which drops out of the sky.

It’s time they ploughed more of their profits into securing the water supply for when the weather is drier. A good place to start would be fixing the leaks through which nearly three billion litres are lost every day and creating more reservoirs.

Why must customers be punished for water firms’ negligence?