Why do all these American rivers have such complicated and evocatave names? We just have things like Trent, Rother, Avon, Wye, Wear and Ure. The only evocative name we have is the Piddle (also called the Trent) but what it evokes is probably best not mentioned!

Last year, in June, the south-east of England had less fresh water than the Sudan!

LTS