Experts are warning that without "fast changes" the UK could run out of drinking water in the future.

The first seven months of 2025 were the driest since 1976, with reservoirs across England only 56.1% full on average, according to the Environment Agency .

"I think that we do need to worry about the fact that there is this possibility we could run out," Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology from Reading University, told Sky News.

"It's only if we start thinking like that, that we're going to start conserving our water, otherwise we just take it completely for granted.

"It is all of our fault, we have not been paying attention to what's going on… we need some very fast changes to the way that we are using water and the way that we're storing water in order to stop this being a probl

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