Britain | Drip, drop, tick, tock
Fixing Britain’s national water supply will be a marathon
But there’s no time to waste
THE TOWN of Havant, explains Bob Taylor, was founded on Europe’s largest natural field of springs, which is fed by rainwater falling on the South Downs and percolating into a chalk aquifer. Much of the water goes out to sea. But in three years it will start to fill a reservoir.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Drip, drop, tick, tock”
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