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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”31337″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]England is facing a water crisis. The UK government has just\u00a0announced plans<\/a>\u00a0to fast-track two massive reservoir projects in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire,\u00a0warning that without them<\/a>, we could run out of drinking water by the mid-2030s. But as a hydrologist who studies Britain\u2019s often erratic weather patterns, I believe these reservoirs alone won\u2019t solve our water problems.<\/p>\n

No major reservoirs have been completed in England since 1992. But the rising population, housing developments and the construction of data centres which use large amounts of water as a coolant are putting intense pressure on our water supplies.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, climate change is\u00a0bringing hotter, drier summers<\/a>\u00a0that increase the risk of drought, as a warmer atmosphere soaks up more water and moves it around in increasingly extreme patterns. This year\u2019s arid spring has already pushed north-west England into\u00a0official drought status<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s solution is to build nine new reservoirs by 2050, potentially providing 670 million litres of extra water daily. The two fast-tracked projects in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are pencilled for completion in 2036 and 2040 respectively. On paper, this sounds like a sensible response to a growing crisis.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the problem: we\u2019re thinking about water all wrong. We need a complete overhaul of the way we use water. We need to plug leaks, cut down on waste and\u00a0use water more than once<\/a>\u00a0in our homes and buildings before sloshing it down the drain. We need to catch more water wherever it falls \u2013 not just in the river basins that are linked to big reservoirs.<\/p>\n

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Water companies lose billions of litres daily through leaky pipes. Some estimates suggest that\u00a0around 20% of treated water<\/a>\u00a0never reaches taps because it seeps out of ageing infrastructure. Meanwhile, we\u2019re planning to pump water across huge distances from new reservoirs to supply areas that could be managing their local water resources far more efficiently.<\/p>\n

It would be better to make more difficult decisions around the regulation of new buildings, as well as retrofitting older homes and businesses, to cut waste and recycle water where it is used. This isn\u2019t just about taking\u00a0shorter showers<\/a>\u00a0or turning off taps as you brush your teeth \u2013 although these things do help.<\/p>\n

We need systematic changes: building standards that require water recycling systems, tighter management of water-hungry developments in already dry areas and serious investment in our crumbling water infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The reservoirs planned for Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire will take more than a decade to complete and will cost billions of pounds. In the UK,\u00a0little research has been done<\/a>\u00a0to compare the costs of major infrastructure against a mass roll out of household-level water saving techniques.<\/p>\n

Such schemes are rare in Europe. But evidence from historically water-scarce regions, such as\u00a0parts of Australia<\/a>, have shown that widely-adopted community and domestic water storage and recycling is cost effective. In the past, the approach in the UK and most European countries has followed a traditional model that often dates to Victorian times, or before.<\/p>\n

These civic water supply and drainage systems were built to\u00a0address public health crises<\/a>\u00a0and cut water-borne diseases across urban areas.<\/p>\n

But an unprecedented climate calls for unprecedented solutions. These could include the widespread roll out of\u00a0sustainable drainage solutions<\/a>\u00a0that mimic nature and capture rainwater where it falls, on\u00a0roofs or ditches filled with plants<\/a>, rather than letting it rush straight down the drains into the rivers.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”31338″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]Britain\u2019s weather has always been variable, but it\u2019s now extremely variable. We\u2019ve experienced this seesaw pattern of drought followed by flooding, as seen in the contrast between dry and wet months seen over the past year.<\/p>\n

This all-or-nothing rainfall pattern makes it even more important to capture and store water locally when we have it, rather than relying on large, centralised infrastructure that may be in the wrong place when extreme weather strikes.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s decision to override local planning objections for these reservoir projects highlights another issue. Communities may be asked to sacrifice their land and landscapes for water infrastructure that primarily serves distant urban areas. This approach feels increasingly outdated when we could manage water more sustainably at the local level.<\/p>\n

None of this means we don\u2019t need new reservoirs. More water storage needs to be part of the solution. But while big reservoir projects may be politically attractive as they are visible examples of government action, they shouldn\u2019t be our only solution, or even our primary one.<\/p>\n

The climate crisis demands that we think differently about water. A warmer world shifts water from region to region more easily, causing problems by its presence or its absence. In the UK, we will increasingly have to treat water as a precious resource, to be more carefully managed wherever we find it.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Hannah Cloke<\/a> is a Professor of Hydrology at the School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science.<\/p>\n

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