Water

Residents demand action over 'Plymouth pongs'
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Devon
Posted
2 days ago
$A man wearing a gilet and a cap stands near a sewage treatment works in Plympton and looks at the camera.$
How climate change is reshaping Britain's trees
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Hereford & Worcester
Posted
2 days ago
$Stephanie James is wearing a green polo shirt with the nursery's logo on. She has brown hair tied loosely back and brown eyes. She is smiling. Behind her are rows of trees in pots, they are cercis eternal flame, the leaves are a vibrant green, yellow and red.$
Pub loses 'thousands' in Thames Water outages
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Wiltshire
Posted
6 days ago
$Royal Wootton Bassett Restaurant Ashley Windle wearing a black coat jacket and standing in front of his white-painted pub with a sign on it saying THE ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT FREEHOUSE.$
Mayors could be given powers to oversee water companies
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UK
Posted
16 September
$A woman in a yellow hi-vis jacket, a white hard hat, white shirt and jeans crouches on some rocks next to a stream of water next to a red sandy bank. In the background is a factory behind a high fence$
Money Box Live: Rising Water Bills. Audio, 29 minutes
Water bills are going up, but can you lower them and what help is there if you can't pay?
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Every detail of Isle of Man's record July heatwave
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Isle of Man
Posted
15 September
$A sunrise over fanella beach$
Business leaders urge PM to fast-track reservoir plan
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Oxfordshire
Posted
15 September
$An artist's aerial view of how the new reservoir would look as the sun sets on the horizon.$
How do you keep soil healthy during a drought?
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Cornwall
Posted
14 September
$Man wearing a baseball cap is bending over picking kale from rows of vegetables. Some of the lines are covered in a mesh to keep butterflies and caterpillars off the greens. There is a polytunnel in the background$
Hosepipe ban could last until winter, firm says
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England
Posted
11 September
$A woman watering plants in a raised bed using a green plastic watering can.$
Turkey's growing sinkhole problem. Audio, 27 minutes
Sinkholes are rapidly increasing in central Turkey after years of groundwater extraction
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
How a lake built for steel helps fight drought
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England
Posted
9 September
$View through tall trees in the foreground with Kielder Water in the background, surrounded by a dense green forest. Beyond the far bank there are rolling hills under an overcast sky with grey clouds.$
Reservoir could be up and running within a decade
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Cambridgeshire
Posted
8 September
$An illustrative image of the new reservoir, people are walking beside the water on a footpath, and there is a grassy area with trees, and a building in the background$
Is there a hosepipe ban in my area? What you need to know
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Weather
Posted
7 September
$A satellite image shows the south of England looking brown after the impact of drought$
Drought devastation: How to protect London's trees
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London
Posted
7 September
$Parched yellow grass with a bare tree$
Man repeatedly fixes road damaged by burst pipes
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Essex
Posted
7 September
$A man with grey hair wearing a red T-shirt stands in the middle of a country lane surrounded by green trees.$
Officer to combat homes pumping sewage into rivers
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London
Posted
4 September
$Man in a pink hi-viz coat and rubber gloves holding a jar of murky water while he stares at it in a concerned manner.$
Is there still a hosepipe ban? Video, 00:01:22
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England
Posted
3 September
$Two men sitting in a podcast studio.$
Shorter showers suggested to save water
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England
Posted
2 September
$A close-up of two people using a bathroom tap to dampen their toothbrushes.$
Can we cope with droughts? Audio, 26 minutes
Water crises are expected to get worse in many parts of the world. Are there solutions?
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
The race to stop England running out of water
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BBC InDepth
Posted
29 August
$A black and white image of a dried-up riverbed. The photo is surrounded by a red and beige rectangle and there is a BBC InDepth logo in the top left$
It is raining - so why is there a hosepipe ban? Video, 00:00:30
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Bristol
Posted
28 August
$A man in a blue shirt talks to the camera$
Historic pond expected to recover naturally
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Surrey
Posted
27 August
$A large pond with its water level receding, exposing a sandy beach. The pond is otherwise surrounded by green bushes.$
Bristol Water announces hosepipe ban. Video, 00:00:30
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Bristol
Posted
27 August
$It's the first hosepipe ban because of a drought in the area in more than 50 years.$
Plant makes 5.5m extra litres of drinking water
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Jersey
Posted
26 August
$A view from above shows Jersey's desalination plant, surrounded by cliff faces and made up of water containers, and two main buildings with an area of seawater to the top of the image.$