England faces 5,000,000,000-litre water shortage every day by 2055

Vehicles using a bridge to pass over a dry section of the Woodhead Reservoir yesterday, after a prolonged period without rain (Picture: Reuters)

England faces being short of billions of litres of water every day if action is not taken urgently, the government has warned.

Climate change, population changes, and new tech which requires data cooling centres will all put pressure on the water system.

It means we could need a five-billion-litre shortfall per day by 2055, with another...