The answer to the Q. 'Why is the UK facing water shortages despite record rainfall?' is essentially, we do too little to harvest & retain water, seeming happy to let it flow back to the sea...
As always in the UK it comes down to a lack of investment in infrastructure. And that is merely another reflection of the corrosive short-termism of our political class.
So, our problem with water is just exemplary of the omnicrisis into which the country has fallen.
#water
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/01/why-uk-facing-water-shortages-despite-record-rainfall-explainer
My Grandparents house had a water tank out side, this was above the outside toilet area I think, so a brick extension, flat roof, trhe water tank was on top of that. Could hold a lot of water and was ideal for watering plants etc during hot weather I guess.
Things like this are now seen as old fashioned but if houses were built like this we could all harvest a lot of rain water (esp given how much we are getting at the moment).
Sometimes the old ways of the past had good solutions.
