Water is all around us. We drink it – although most of us should probably drink more of it – I know I need to. We shower in it – at least I hope we all do. We swim in it – that is, if you are one of the lucky ones considering the British summer. We are even made up of water ourselves. And it’s a deadly serious area of international development policy.

Labour is dead keen on only helping to fix the water supply crisis in many developing countries by using public-private partnership type setups. Yet we know from our own public services just how controversial, expensive and ineffecient they can be.

So what should we be doing? Well you’ll have to read me latest article – this time for Liberal Democrat News to find out!