Water

• Food, water and energy are resources that help maintain social and economic wellbeing
• The UK has reserves of each resource type
• Around 80% of the global population experience water insecurity
• Water insecurity

  No reliable access to adequate quantities of acceptably clean water
• Water supply and consumption are not evenly distributed in the UK
• The UK has an overall water surplus although there are variations in the amount of rainfall across the country
• There are variations in the population density across the UK
• Population density


  The average number of people in a certain area
• Water transfer schemes


  Water taken from a place of surplus to a place of deficit
• One example of a water transfer scheme is Kielder reservoir in Northumberland
• Water use has increased as more people wash cars, take longer showers and water their gardens
• The average person uses around 150 litres of cleaned and treated water every day
• Farming and industry also use large quantities of water
• Only a proportion of the UK's total water use comes from within the country
• Water footprint


  The amount of water used by a country, both domestically and through imports
• The UK government has considered creating a national water grid