{"id":376,"date":"2025-05-26T19:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/?p=376"},"modified":"2025-05-26T19:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T19:10:06","slug":"is-the-uks-infrastructure-ready-for-climate-change-with-periods-of-dry-weather-becoming-more-common-as-a-result-of-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Is the UK\u2019s infrastructure ready for climate change, with periods of dry weather becoming more common as a result of the climate crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is the UK\u2019s infrastructure ready for climate change, with periods of dry weather becoming more common as a result of the climate crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No new reservoir has been built in the UK since 1992, shortly after water companies were privatised. While there are some plans to build new reservoirs these are not expected to be completed until the 2030s. \u00a0Meanwhile the average household bill is expectedly to increase by \u00a331 a year to pay for infrastructure upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a fifth of England\u2019s water supply is lost by water companies before it reaches customers, more than enough to supply Greater London.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs blamed \u201ccrumbling\u201d water infrastructure on \u201cyears of underinvestment\u201d. They added: \u201cWe are monitoring water levels and expect water companies to cut leaks and take action to protect supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read in The i Paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/Apn3GR5GVSdudATYgzvhFPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apple.news\/Apn3GR5GVSdudATYgzvhFPA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the UK\u2019s infrastructure ready for climate change, with periods of dry weather becoming more common as a result of the climate crisis? No new reservoir has been built in the UK since 1992, shortly after water companies were privatised. While there are some plans to build new reservoirs these are not expected to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safeavon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}