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Climate change, driven by human activities producing more greenhouse gases and reducing carbon sink capacity (such as deforestation), is now increasing the level of variability in our weather nationally and globally.

Ideas around how Scotland can make sure people and industry can continue to access clean water, as supplies come under increasing pressure from climate change, will be one of the key topics at a major water sector event in Edinburgh next Friday (March 22).

Scotland’s climate is changing faster than scientists predicted, with increasing likelihood of more frequent and more extreme weather events, according to new analysis by The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.