Talks by Southern Water with a private company to potentially import bottled water from Norway to combat droughts are 'farcical', GMB has said.
Gary Carter, GMB National Officer, said:
"Can Southern Water be serious?
"People up and down the UK are battling pouring rain and floods, Southern are spending bill payers money on ridiculous plans to ship bottled water in from Norway.
"The UK uses just a tiny amount of the rain that falls from our skies.
"Private water companies have utterly failed to invest in the infrastructure needed to capture and use more and reduce the need for farcical plans like this..
