This summer we’ve seen things we never thought we’d see — temperatures of 40C and above in Britain and months of unusually dry weather that have broken records for low rainfall. Many of our rivers and reservoirs are exceptionally low, and millions are subject to a hosepipe ban.
In continental Europe the picture is even starker. In Germany, the Rhine is at such low levels that ships cannot move, and France is send water by tanker to hundreds of places where the taps have run dry.
