Water Scarcity

Severn Trent and the Art of Selling Rain Back to the English By Dave’s Locker Foreign Correspondent, filing from a damp pub in Shropshire with Wi-Fi worse than a Siberian gulag. There’s something beautifully perverse about Severn Trent Water—Britain’s sixth-largest water company—declaring record profits last year while England simultaneously endured hosepipe bans so draconian that…