Rainwater used to surge through Will Luke’s dairy farm whenever there was a downpour.<\/p>\n
He used to watch it flow away but concerns over “drier and drier” summers led him to build a storage pond allowing him to put that water to use – particularly for livestock.<\/p>\n
“Once it leaves the farm, it’s no good to me. If we capture the water we can get more use out of it. We’re much more resilient,” said Mr Luke, whose farm is near Plymouth, Devon.<\/p>\n
The Westcountry Rivers Trust said ponds and wetlands were insurance for “times of need” including droughts, and it was now leading a \u20ac8m (\u00a36.95m) project on how the so-called “water batteries” could be used to create a “smart water grid” across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rainwater used to surge through Will Luke’s dairy farm whenever there was a downpour. He used to watch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-216168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}