Water
Blue Gold

Historically, life in eastern England has been dominated by both a shortage of drinking water and a surplus of water on the low-lying fenlands. Until the industrial era, these problems were battled using relatively primitive technology. Much water has been obtained from deep within the chalk. In Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire wells could be up to 200 metres deep, but were quite shallow in the gravels and sands below more densely populated areas such as south east Essex.