Giving Compass' Take:

• In this story from Global Citizen, author James Hitchings-Hales discusses the risk of water shortages in England as a result of climate changes.

• What needs to change in England to make their supply of water sustainable? What role can the nonprofit sector play in getting there?

• To learn more about the Cape Town water crisis, click here.

It’s been a year since Cape Town saved itself from “Day Zero” — the moment the South African city was widely expected to be the first in the world to run out of water — after the city halved its daily water consumption with drastic rationing.

Now experts have warned that a water crisis could happen [in] England! — within the next 25 years.

And it’s down to something called the “jaws of death.”

The terrifying term is defined by the Guardian as the point where water demand from a rising population meets a falling supply provoked by climate change.

It was used by Sir James Bevan — the chief executive at a UK public body called the Environment Agency — to argue that the only way to battle such an “existential threat” is to slash water use by a third across the country.

“We need water wastage to be as socially unacceptable as blowing smoke in the face of a baby or throwing your plastic bags into the sea,” Bevan told the Guardian before a speech in London on Tuesday.

Read the full article about water shortages by James Hitchings-Hales at Global Citizen