5. Water Conservators Annual Lecture:

Jetting back from Ashtead after the prize giving by car meant I missed the start of our Annual Lecture (unlike the canny Lord Mayor who left the Mayoral party and travelled to London by train for a separate event). Fortunately, Roger was in position to open the proceedings. The Lecture: Resource and Water Scarcity – future-proofing the City of London was well attended. It exposed the gap between the present problems and potential medium term solutions. Speakers: Mark Lane (The future is not what it used to be), Martin Baggs (Building resilience in the nation’s capital), Sarah Mukherjee (Responding to water scarcity: what can corporations do) and Tim Curtis (Resource Risks and the circular economy) laid the basis for an exciting debate, although, from my standpoint, worrying, with behavioural changes being a necessary part of the future-proofing process. My thanks go to Roger, the guest speakers and attendees who made the evening very worthwhile.