That apparent contradiction is the starting point for the latest article in my Has2BGreen Water Stress series. The problem isn't simply how much rain we receive. It is when it arrives, how quickly it arrives and what happens to it afterwards. This led me to think about rainfall as a water budget. If a winter delivers more rain than the historical average, we can calculate that surplus. Just 1mm of rain over 1km² represents one million litres of water. So where does all that additional winter water go? Could we keep more of it in soils, aquifers, wetlands, ponds and reservoirs, reducing flooding while making ourselves more resilient to summer drought? Slow it. Spread it. Sink it. Store it. 💧 Read Article 10 — Where Did All the Winter Water Go? 🌍 Join Has2BGreen free We're exploring global climate problems through what is happening locally — then looking for practical solutions we can actually use.

Homes need water. Farmers need it to grow our food. Rivers and wildlife need it to survive. Firefighters need it during hot, dry weather. Industry and energy need it too. And new housing and data centres are adding further demand. My latest article in the Has2BGreen Water Stress series asks the uncomfortable question: Who gets priority when there isn't enough for everyone? But perhaps there's a question we should ask first: Who actually needs drinking-quality water? Could rainwater, greywater and recycled water reduce the competition before difficult choices have to be made? Has2BGreen is a free community exploring how global challenges affect us locally — and, importantly, what practical solutions we can find. 💧 Read Article 9 — Who Gets the Water? 🌍 Join Has2BGreen Global problems. Local consequences. Shared solutions.

I’ve just published Article 8 in a series I’m writing about water stress. It starts with a farmer spending £750,000 on a reservoir. While standing in the field where it will be built, he told me that 32mm of rain had fallen across his 5,000-acre farm in just two hours — approaching 650 million litres of water. Too much water now. Potentially not enough later. That led me into a much bigger question: before we build increasingly complex systems to create, treat and move water, how good are we at keeping the water that already falls on us? Slow it. Spread it. Sink it. Store it. The article is part of Has2BGreen, my free Skool community exploring how huge global challenges such as climate change translate into local problems — and, importantly, finding practical solutions communities can learn from. 💧 Read the article 🌍Join Has2BGreen If climate change concerns you but you're more interested in what we can actually do about it, you’re very welcome to join us.

Every new home creates a demand for water that could last for the next 100 years — while climate change is making our summer water supplies less reliable. My latest article asks whether we're thinking about this the wrong way. Instead of simply connecting new developments to increasingly stretched water supplies, could we design neighbourhoods to capture rain, reuse water, replenish aquifers and reduce flooding? It led me to one idea I particularly like: It can take decades to build a reservoir. What if the neighbourhood was the reservoir? 👉 Read the article I explore questions like this through Has2BGreen, a free community looking at how big global challenges affect the places where we actually live — and what practical solutions we can find. Notice. Speak Up. Suggest Ideas. Share Solutions. 🌍 Join Has2BGreen free

Wildfires used to feel like something that happened in Australia, California or southern Europe. Not anymore. My latest Has2BGreen article looks at Britain's growing wildfire risk — and asks some surprisingly practical questions. Can firefighters reach remote fires? Where does the water come from during a drought? Do we need dedicated firefighting aircraft? And what happens when several counties are fighting major fires at the same time? Has2BGreen is a free community exploring how global problems such as climate change translate into local risks — and, more importantly, what we can actually do about them. 🌍 Understand the problem. 🏘️ Bring it down to local level. 💡 Find practical solutions. 🤝 Learn from what others are already doing. Article 6: When the Countryside Catches Fire is now available in Has2BGreen. Come and join us — it's free.