Enough Water to Go Round

Programme Outline

This programme covers:

• Provision of fresh water and some of the causes, effects and ways to prevent water pollution.
• The variety of ways water is used.
• Issues on the River Kennet, west of Reading, and the effects on the life of the river.
• Water boreholes in the chalk. Swindon receives its water supply by this method.
• Just how much water a household uses and what would happen if the taps dried up.
• Ways of increasing supply, such as building reservoirs like Thames Water’s Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford. But schemes like this have serious drawbacks.
• The need to start managing both the supply of and the demand for water.