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Water challenge comes as island pushes to maintain ‘silicon shield’ against China
Climate advisers’ report critical of progress and identifies multiple failures
Heavy manufacturing and agricultural users should pay more per unit to nudge them to reduce their own consumption
There may be an investment case for holding them, but it’s not obvious they are saving the planet
Farmers are intensely aware of the challenges in conserving water supplies
Who should control access to increasingly scarce resources?
Fixing old, leaking pipes vital as prospect of hotter and drier summers loom
Nearly half of cases are children as fears grow that disease could become endemic
Farmers struggle to make ends meet in unpredictable weather that has become the ‘new normal’
We are on the verge of a humanitarian crisis in the region — local innovation is key to solving it
The country is struggling to wean itself off subsidies that encourage overuse
Companies used to take water for granted in their accounting. Not any more
Water stress and floods place infrastructure at ‘significant risk’, World Meteorological Organization reports
Scientists say weather will stay hotter and drier until November, compounding concerns about food and energy
Fast-growing sector in south-east England is switching to water cooling systems to cut electricity usage
Analysts say the ‘true cost’ is up to five times more than the amount companies pay at present
Britons at risk of e-coli, salmonella and even hepatitis A after water companies dump sewage and storm water into sea
From including water in landscape plans to being selective with irrigation, we can all take better care of a finite resource
López Obrador takes aim at industry using dwindling water resources while local people suffer
Instead of fighting over hosepipes, suppliers and households have a common duty to manage water resources better
Livestock and dairy farmers use up winter feedstocks as climate change brings further extreme weather threats
More than half of nation affected by second heatwave after driest July on record
Thames Water warns its 15mn customers that restrictions will soon be needed given forecast for continued dry weather
Continuing dry weather is forecast with three water companies introducing hosepipe bans
The FT’s Gill Plimmer explores whether water really is just another commodity, or an essential human right
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