Lack of water storage is an urgent national security issue | Letters

Readers respond to the crisis facing Britain caused by the lack of reservoir capacity and hotter summers Your reporters came up with a good list of urgent climate policies in response to Andy Burnham’s somewhat surreal statement focusing on the sale of disposable barbecues following a Cobra meeting ( From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now, 12 August ), but they missed out the No 1 issue: the UK’s water-storage capacity.

It is blindingly obvious that we need to dramatically and rapidly increase water storage.

The current plans to fast-track the building of nine reservoirs by 2050 might be speedy by the standards of UK infrastructure delivery projects, but they may well have been overtaken by climate change trends.

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