Fiona Harvey

We need places to store water.

We haven't built a new reservoir in this country for 30 years and yet the population has increased in that time and the demands for water and our rainfall patterns have changed.

So we need these new reservoirs and we need ways of moving water to where people need it.

And this is what the report's recommending?

The report is very clear about that.

The report is also saying a lot about farming because obviously farmers are extremely affected by all of this, by both drought and flood, and by higher temperatures which affect the yields of many plants.

And they need to start adapting.

It's hard for them to do that because a lot of farmers are very stretched.

And it's so unpredictable, right?

Yeah, it's making the farming year completely different to today's farmers than it would have been for their grandfathers or even for their parents, you know, farming.

So we need to look at our food production and how we maintain that.

At the moment, you know, we get about 60% of our food from the UK and the Committee on Climate Change is very clear that we need to maintain that because, of course, we don't exist in a vacuum.

There's heat weavers all over Europe.

There have been heat weavers in the US.

We're seeing massive heat weavers in India and various other countries.

And what we're seeing this year could get a lot worse.

This issue used to be just regarded as weather.

It's of interest.

Do I need my brawley today?

It's a national obsession.