Water shortage

Well I never expected to hear these words in Scotland:” We have no water.”
 
Visited Cloan House, a fairy-tale castle, near Auchtrerarder this afternoon, open to the public under Scotland’s Garden scheme, when M spotted a bottle on the table as we bought our tickets. Thinking it was part of a raffle he offered to buy one until the owner explained it was water, not wine, given to him by a neighbour because they had no water.
 
The three-acre garden, designed over 150 years ago, was spectacular though I couldn’t help wondering how much longer it could exist in this state if water shortages become a regular feature of life. ( see extra).
For centuries farms, and castles like Cloan House  rely on their own water supply coming off the nearby mountains.