Ministers must introduce a national hosepipe ban and mandatory water metering to tackle the looming threat of drought following the driest July in more than 100 years, infrastructure experts have warned.
The National Infrastructure Committee (NIC), a government agency, has said water needs to start being managed better across the whole of the UK. If it isn’t, they said, the country could face a future of queueing for emergency bottled supplies “from the back of lorries”.
