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Speakers:
Trevor Bishop, Head of Water Resources, Environment Agency
Dr Vicky Pope, Co-ordinator on Drought, Met Office
Dr David Boorman, Senior Hydrologist and Team Leader, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
We’ve had the wettest April on record yet parts of the UK remain officially in drought. A panel of speakers came to the SMC to answer journalists’ questions from what weather conditions are needed before we’re no longer in drought, to the impact of a changing climate on the current situation.