Climate change: Could recycled sewage solve future water shortages?

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Climate change: Could recycled sewage solve future water shortages?
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London is the driest part of the UK and water companies are facing significant challenges.

It certainly is a controversial plan and a similar scheme in 2019 was rejected. Many are concerned about what increased temperatures and chemicals could do to marine life.

"We don't have the funding to keep a proper eye on what's going on and monitor the quality of the water."Thames Water wants to use recycled sewage effluent to replace water it takes from the Thames "What we need to do is keep the flow in the river at the same rate so we don't put the river under stress," explains Leonie Dubois from Thames Water.

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