A severe drought in the UK has seen farmers been impacted in their ability to produce crops at a reasonable rate due to lack of irrigation available to them. Indeed, this effect can be seen in fruits such as apples which are expected to be much smaller this year due to this weather pattern. One positive aspect of this drought is that it’s made awareness for farmers on alternative methods such as storing more organic wastes in their field to lower water consumption which was previously only done in certain scenarios.

Key Takeaways:

• The driest winter for a long time has hit especially hard in the south-east, where conjectures for rain stay subtle in the coming week.
• Numerous agriculturists have started to flood crops a month and a half sooner than regular therefore, and natural product ranchers specifically are stressed that the water will run out.
• Water administration specialists are calling for water shunting, in which water is moved colossal separations from the high precipitation north to the low-precipitation south.

“Farmers are warning that water may have to be transferred across Britain after an unusually dry winter and spring left more than four-fifths of rivers with too little to support local growers. Fears of a drought were expected to ease this weekend as scattered showers usher in a more traditional British spring, but wildlife and agriculture industries are bracing for a long, parched summer.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/12/uk-farmers-call-for-cross-country-pipelines-after-driest-winter-in-20-years-water-shortage-south-east