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Twelve months on from their historic reintroduction, Tim Smedley returns to Northamptonshire’s wetlands to find a growing beaver family reshaping water, woodland and expectation.
How a living wetland uses reeds, microbes and time to treat an entire town’s sewage without energy, chemicals or concrete tanks.
Not predictions. Signals. Quiet shifts already under way that hint at how water policy, planning, and public trust may change in the year ahead.
2025 told us what was broken. 2026 will decide whether we fix it. Britain’s water system has run out of excuses, and the bill for delay is now being delivered in plain sight.
Three letters that water authorities never sent, revealing how mixed messages, service failures and silence defined 2025.
