内容摘要：An unusual setting, you might think, for an immaculate beauty salon.

An unusual setting, you might think, for an immaculate beauty salon.

They "would provide more resilience to future droughts in a part of the country that is already dry and where there is high demand for water", said Dr Glenn Watts, water science director at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.Reservoirs can help protect against the impacts of drought by collecting excess rainfall during wet periods.

With climate change likely to bring hotter, drier summers, the chances of drought could increase in the decades ahead, the Met Office says.These preparations have been brought into sharp focus by, according to the Environment Agency, which says it is watching the situation closely in other regions.

Extra demand from new houses, data centres and other sectors could further squeeze supplies, but no major reservoirs have been completed in England since 1992, shortly after the water sector was privatised.Last year the government and water companies announced proposals to build nine new reservoirs by 2050.

Together they have the potential to provide 670 million litres of extra water per day, they say.

That's in addition to the Havant Thicket reservoir project in Hampshire, which is already under way and is expected to be completed by 2031.A rags-to-riches origin story combined with a bullish political style has made Lee into a divisive figure in South Korea.

"Lee Jae-myung's life has been full of ups and downs, and he often takes actions that stir controversy," Dr Lee Jun-han, professor of political science and international studies at Incheon National University, tells the BBC.These actions typically include attempts at progressive reform – such as a pledge, made during his 2022 presidential campaign, to implement universal basic income scheme – which challenge the existing power structure and status quo in South Korea.

"Because of this, some people strongly support him, while others distrust or dislike him," Dr Lee says. "He is a highly controversial and unconventional figure – very much an outsider who has made a name for himself in a way that doesn't fit traditional Democratic Party norms."In a recent memoir, Lee described his childhood as "miserable". Born in 1963 in a mountain village in Andong, Gyeongbuk Province, he was the fifth of five sons and two daughters, and - due to his family's difficult circumstances - skipped middle school to illegally enter the workforce.