Can we really be short of water?
How on earth do we manage so regularly to run short of water? Here we are, living on a damp collection of islands, surrounded by sea, running with rivers, and slap bang in the way of the wet westerly winds. Yet every year, it seems, we are faced with restrictions.
United Utilities, the company that is supposed to supply water in the North West, normally the wettest part of the country, says it may well soon impose a hosepipe ban. Source