Farmers in Scotland have been urged to build lagoons on their land and put other plans in place to deal with possible water shortages this summer with some parts of the country already recording low river levels and dry ground conditions.
The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued the first water scarcity report of 2023 showing that parts of central, western and northern Scotland have reached the early warning level.
Scotland had a drier winter than average, with a particularly dry February, resulting in lower than normal river flows and groundwater levels for this time of year.
Farmers are being encouraged to plan for the future by building irrigation lagoons that fill up with rainwater during the winter months and can be used as
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