A Drop to Drink?
Britain is in a state of hydrological stress. Hosepipe bans affected 20 million people in 1990. Some have lasted all winter. The 140,000 toilet flushes a minute, half a million loads of washing an hour, and three million dirty cars to clean a week, add up to a crisis of supply for rainy Britain. Could water meters be the answer? John Howard reports. Producer Andrea Brown
Series editor Jeremy Evans
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