Keeping taps on and boosting wildlife: the race to protect the Lake District's water

Award-winning partnership is regenerating natural habitats in attempt to secure water supply as climate crisis worsensThe mountainous region surrounding Helvellyn, the Lake District's third highest peak, gathers a substantial portion of the rainwater that supplies homes, businesses and public buildings throughout the north-west of England."The fact of the matter is that the most precious resource, the thing that we really cannot rely on anywhere else, is the water," says John Gorst, a catchment partnership officer at the water company United Utilities, which has 7.5 million customers in the region. Continue reading...