Adam Price

🚨 RIVER ACTION INVESTIGATION: The hidden water scandal behind Britain's hosepipe bans. Millions of households are being told to use less water. But our investigation reveals a much bigger story. While we face hosepipe bans... ⚠️ More than 14,000 commercial licences permit up to 43 TRILLION litres of water to be abstracted every year - enough to fill Lake Windermere 144 times. ⚠️ Around 435 golf courses alone hold licences permitting up to 8.8 BILLION litres a year - enough to fill 3,520 Olympic-sized swimming pools. ⚠️ The UK's 500 data centres already use an estimated 6.6 MILLION litres of water every day for cooling - and demand is only set to grow. ⚠️Meanwhile, the eight water companies imposing hosepipe bans lose nearly 1.5 BILLION litres of treated drinking water every day through leaks before it even reaches customers. Let's be clear: everyone has a role to play in using water wisely. But households cannot be expected to shoulder the burden of a crisis created by decades of political failure, weak regulation and chronic underinvestment. It's time to stop asking the public to pay the price for a broken water system - and start fixing it. riveractionuk.com/news/hosep…