High and dry

It doesn't take long without rain for the forests' streams to begin flashing their gravelly asses; and it won't be long before there's more gravel than stream on show. Did you know that even though this past winter and spring are amongst the wettest recorded we're still on course for a drought and water shortages later in the year. Why? Decades of privatization have seen our existing/ageing infrastructure left neglected, huge sums of money extracted with no investment, and certainly no substantive reservoirs were built. It's no wonder that our services are collapsing when during that same period our population has risen by some 10 million. For a start we take the water companies back into public hands I say, that's taking them back too, not buying them; the investors have had their pound of flesh and some.