A new story from bestselling YA writer Patrice Lawrence set in the not too distant future when London is running low on water.
Inspired by the work of Dr Sarah Ayling, Professor Lindsey McEwen and their teams looking at UK drought and water scarcity, this film is part of Hay Festival Trans.MISSION, a project with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, a part of UK Research and Innovation) pairing leading researchers with award-winning artists to communicate the latest climate science. New stories have launched at events in Peru, Colombia and Wales throughout 2019-20.
Patrice Lawrence is a British writer and journalist, who has published fiction both for adults and children. Her writing has won awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children and The Bookseller YA Book Prize.
Dr Sarah Ayling is a plant physiologist based at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at UWE, Bristol. She has studied the effects of drought and the root environment on plant growth in the UK, USA and Australia.
Prof Lindsey McEwen is Professor of Environmental Management within the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the UWE, Bristol, and Director of the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience.
Find out more at http://hayfestival.org/sustainability
Find out more about the research behind this project at https://nerc.ukri.org/research/funded/programmes/droughts/
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