The UK is running out of water. Population and economic growth combined with climate change mean that consumption is increasingly outstripping supply. We are already abstracting more water from the environment than is sustainable. In England alone the Environment Agency has estimated that there will be shortfall of five billion litres a day (or 35% of current supply) by 2050.
To meet this shortfall the government projects major reductions in per capita consumption, increased efficiency in the use of water across all sectors, reduced leakage and a significant programme of new reservoirs. Are these steps deliverable? Have we the mechanisms to make them happen?
We will hear the views of major users of water, including the housing sector, farming, industry and household consumers as well as of the water industry itself.
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