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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Katie L Wilson

Recycling sewage and drinking seawater could be answer to ending hosepipe bans

This summer, the UK experienced its warmest year on record, with temperatures as high as 40.3 degrees - shattering previous records. Droughts and hosepipe bans were declared across England, after months of low rainfall led to dried up rivers and threatened crops.

Conditions like these will only become more intense and more frequent, due to climate change, leaving British farmers and water companies worried about the future.

Yet it is Israel - a country which is 60% desert, has scarce water sources and must frequently deal with drought - that is leading the world in technologies to both provide and save water. Israeli companies, like Netafim, are already helping British farmers grapple with increased pressures on agriculture.

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