Whats the best way to conserve water?
Fans of waterlogged disaster films will be pleased to hear of a special edition Poseidon Adventure DVD out this month. Generally less pleasing, however, is the fact that our own real-life water disaster continues to gather pace. The UK is not only running dry in parts but has become spectacularly water inefficient. The drier the winters, the less it rains, the more aquifers are drained and reservoirs sold off for housing development, the more water we seem inclined to use. According to a new book, Water: Use Less, Save More (Green Books, £3.95; www.greenbooks.co.uk), we consume 70 per cent more water than we did 40 years ago. Residents in Surrey, an area of extreme water stress, use around 170 litres per person per day, 40 per cent more than the national average. Overall, we are building more golf courses (these use 7m litres of water per course per season), planning more new houses and installing more deep roll-top baths than ever before. Hosepipe bans represent the ultimate end-of-pi
Fans of waterlogged disaster films will be pleased to hear of a special edition Poseidon Adventure DVD out this month. Generally less pleasing, however, is the fact that our own real-life water disaster continues to gather pace. The UK is not only running dry in parts but has become spectacularly water inefficient. The drier the winters, the less it rains, the more aquifers are drained and reservoirs sold off for housing development, the more water we seem inclined to use. According to a new book, Water: Use Less, Save More (Green Books, £3.95; www.greenbooks.co.uk), we consume 70 per cent more water than we did 40 years ago. Residents in Surrey, an area of extreme water stress, use around 170 litres per person per day, 40 per cent more than the national average. Overall, we are building more golf courses (these use 7m litres of water per course per season), planning more new houses and installing more deep roll-top baths than ever before. Hosepipe bans represent the ultimate end-of-pi
