Seeing the country turn brown is really annoying me, especially when accompanied by all this moronic 'it's fine to let the grass die' nonsense. It's absolutely shameful that we haven't invested in our water infrastructure and have allowed the water companies to let it fall into ruin.
We're an extremely wet and rainy country surrounded by the sea. It's about time we invested in better water storage through the winter along with renewable powered desalination in the east. Then encourage people/landowners to water throughout the summer. Plants dying and soil degrading are releasing massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Walked through Richmond and regents park this weekend, all bone dry and like a dust bowl. Could be green and growing with a fraction of the water that was lost in the Islington leak