Planning UK water strategies
Water water everywhere... But not always in the right place at the right time. https://poelposition.blogspot.com/2026/08/planning-uk-water-strategies.html. this post A National Water Security and Renewal Plan for the UK 20Aug26 v0.1 Britain has spent forty years managing water by crisis and consultation instead of by design. We lurch between flooded valleys and hosepipe bans while the population grows and the climate delivers sharper extremes. The last major reservoir was completed in 1992. Surface drains silt up in drought and then fail when the rain returns. The south and east run short while surplus water falls in the north and west. At the same time, large numbers of young, physically capable arrivals sit in hotels at public expense, and the public grows angry at both the water failures and the sense that nothing is being fixed. This is not complicated. It is a failure of will dressed up as process. ### The proposal in one page Create a single national...
