洪水与干旱推高英国水费

In England and Wales, the steep costs of upgrading climate-stressed water systems are being passed along to customers. By Olivia Rudgard and Jess Shankleman One morning last November, Amber Salamon went to deal with the mess of Weetabix her young son had smeared all over the kitchen. “I was just about to clear everything up, turned the tap on, and there was no water,” she recalls. It was the first of many days without running water for Salamon’s family and about 60,000 other residents in the town of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. When the water returned five days later, it wasn’t clean enough to drink. In January the water cut out again, return- ing only temporarily each day. …