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Britain’s water companies are a disgrace. Millions of people in the UK have spent the summer watching their gardens turn to dustbowls under strict hosepipe bans, says Simon Kelner in The i Paper. But it’s not as though we’ve suddenly run out of water – we simply lack the infrastructure needed to capture, store, transport and conserve it.
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