UK ministers explore raising price of water for industrial users as shortages

The Guardian — Politics has reported on “UK ministers explore raising price of water for industrial users as shortages,” presenting it as the central development in the source material available for this brief.

Environment Agency states talks under way about increasing prices for industrial users to try to reduce poor water management Ministers are exploring making water more expensive for some users, in the face of severe supply shortages. The report also notes that Despite the UK being a famously wet country, the precarious nature of the water supply has been made particularly acute this summer, with almost three-quarters of England and all of Wales in drought and 27 million people facing restrictions on their water use.

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