Will new reservoirs be sufficient to tackle the UK's growing water scarcity risks?

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Will new reservoirs be sufficient to tackle the UK's growing water scarcity risks?

Analysis warns lack of water capacity could cost economy billions as the government, as water companies pledge to ramp up investment in much-needed new capacity

Few facts are more emblematic of the UK's decades of chronic under-investment than the way the country's last reservoir was completed in 1993. Since then the population has grown and drought risks have...

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