{"id":92835,"date":"2026-08-12T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92835"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:06:33","slug":"drought-is-costing-britain-billions-and-the-bill-is-only-getting-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/12\/drought-is-costing-britain-billions-and-the-bill-is-only-getting-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought is costing Britain billions \u2013 and the bill is only getting bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29TWg1.img?w=768&h=481&m=6\" alt=\"Britain lost 24 million working hours and \u00a31.15bn of output as a result of hot weather and repeated heatwaves - Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions of Britons are sweating their way into the fifth heatwave of the year. But the hot weather is not just an inconvenience for the public \u2013 the cost to the economy is high and rising.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/general\/drought-is-costing-britain-billions-and-the-bill-is-only-getting-bigger\/ar-AA29TCau?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a7c50a4b8d74ae08ae7e2192af48767&cvpid=7118796f1ada4cdef0a841c045f48328&ei=12\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Millions of Britons are sweating their way into the fifth heatwave of the year. But the hot weather is not just an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Drought-UK.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92837,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92835\/revisions\/92837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}