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How can England possibly be running out of water?
While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible
Photograph: Lordprice Collection/AlamyWhen the Great Stink hit London in 1858 during a heatwave, the civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette had already been commissioned to draw up plans to urgently update the city’s sewage system. Water company drought plans compel firms to follow a series of steps before they can continue abstraction from depleted reservoirs, rivers and the ground to supply customers, beginning with reducing consumption (a hosepipe ban). The first new reservoir planned for Abingdon in Oxfordshire is sited in the same place as the government’s new datacentre zone, leading to fears the water will be used to cool servers rather than serve customers in one of the most water-stressed areas of the UK.
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