{"id":140302,"date":"2025-05-30T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/drinking-water-shortage-in-decade-without-new-reservoirs-minister-says\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:49:52","slug":"drinking-water-shortage-in-decade-without-new-reservoirs-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/drinking-water-shortage-in-decade-without-new-reservoirs-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking water shortage in decade without new reservoirs, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140302\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nEngland could face drinking water shortages within a decade unless new reservoirs are built, a minister has claimed. The warning comes as the government announced it was speeding up the planning process for two reservoir projects. But overriding local objections can be unpopular and the reservoirs could still be more than a decade away from opening. Household consumption of water may also need to fall to secure supplies amid rising temperatures and a growing population, scientists warn.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement means that final decisions about the proposed Fens Reservoir in Cambridgeshire and the Lincolnshire Reservoir will be taken by Environment Secretary Steve Reed, rather than at a local level. This change amounts to &#8221;slashing red tape to make the planning process faster&#8221;, according to Water Minister Emma Hardy. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: &#8221;This is really important because if we don&#8217;t build the reservoirs, we&#8217;re going to be running out of the drinking water that we need by the mid-2030s.&#8221; The reservoirs in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire are currently pencilled for completion in 2036 and 2040 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8221;would provide more resilience to future droughts in a part of the country that is already dry and where there is high demand for water&#8221;, said Dr Glenn Watts, water science director at the UK Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology. Reservoirs can help protect against the impacts of drought by collecting excess rainfall during wet periods. With climate change likely to bring hotter, drier summers, the chances of drought could increase in the decades ahead, the Met Office says. These preparations have been brought into sharp focus by this year&#8217;s exceptionally dry spring.<\/p>\n<p>North-west England is officially in drought, according to the Environment Agency, which says it is watching the situation closely in other regions. Map showing water levels at the end of April, categorised relative to normal for the time of year, at 31 key reservoirs and groups of reservoirs serving England. Seven are \u201cnotably low\u201d and are located in northern England or in the Welsh reservoirs that serve England. A further six are \u201cbelow normal\u201d. Extra demand from new houses, data centres and other sectors could further squeeze supplies, but no major reservoirs have been completed in England since 1992, shortly after the water sector was privatised.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the government and water companies announced proposals to build nine new reservoirs by 2050. Together they have the potential to provide 670 million litres of extra water per day, they say. That&#8217;s in addition to the Havant Thicket reservoir project in Hampshire, which is already under way and is expected to be completed by 2031. The government also says that it intends to pass legislation to automatically make the other seven proposed reservoirs &#8221;nationally significant&#8221;, so the final decision would be taken by national government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Reservoir projects are very complex infrastructure projects that are slow to take forward, and so anything that can be done to streamline that process can be a positive thing,&#8221; said David Porter, senior vice president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). Anglian Water Artist&#8217;s impression of what the Fens reservoir would look like. There is a large area of water with a building and road towards the bottom of the image. There are further roads in the background. The water industry has also welcomed the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy8dv6l2jlzo\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy8dv6l2jlzo\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/drinking-water-shortage-in-decade-without-new-reservoirs-minister-says\/\">Drinking water shortage in decade without new reservoirs, minister says<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[5423,575,2125,655],"class_list":["post-140302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-drinking-water","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-shortage","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}