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  Editors note: I wheel this blog out periodically when drought threatens to strike again, as it is doing now, despite the UK experiencing one of the wettest winters I can remember in 2025-6. The main problem with our drought resilience is that UK doesn't seem to be able to 'hold its water' nowadays...or is it perhaps we're using too much of the stuff cooling all these new AI data centres ? One way or another, we need a bit of rain....AI won't save us if the raw material in question isn't there to do the job, particularly if its servers regularly overheat due to lack of cooling water. Here's hoping the rain gods will read this and oblige us  with their bounty once again, as they did in '76! With the country teetering on the brink of drought, and hosepipe bans coming in thick and fast, particulary in the parched South, we really need a good dousing...and some new reservoirs ! Incidentally , I can now answer my own question - Yes, and we now have one...of ...

  Many of us find ourselves prescribed one or other of the Statins by our GPs nowadays, often as a result of a routine health check. But are they really necessary, and what are the risks of taking them ? In this article, we’ll try to explain exactly what the statins are, how they work, and why the medical profession are so keen on prescribing them for us ‘en masse’. I’ll start with the ‘why’, to try to put the need for these drugs into context…. Our modern diet is rich in carbohydrates and fats, and often takes the form of highly processed ready meals, which also contain a lot of salt. The problem is that this type of ‘challenge’ to our digestive systems on a continuous basis is an issue – our guts, brains and metabolism simply weren’t designed for it, and the excess salt that most of us consume is likely to compromise our circulatory health. The explanation for this mismatch is relatively simple. For the vast majority of our evolutionary history, food was scarce, and...