
It's not too late to chance your wasteful ways with water
It's a piece of water-based folklore to rival St Swithin's 40-day hypothesis, but when a hosepipe ban is enforced it usually starts raining. Unfortunately even a good soaking won't fill up these parched aquifers. We've had the driest January to June for 71 years. A crowded island, the wrong type of rainfall (frequent deluges) on the wrong type of surface (increasingly concreted) and a Victorian system all conspire to give us less available water per person than Israel.
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