The desalination plant was opened as a drought contingency in 2010 and can supply drinking water to 400,000 homes in the capital at times of crisis. Now Thames Water has revealed that although the maintenance work has now been completed it has since faced problems obtaining carbon dioxide, which is needed for a process where minerals are restored to the water after the removal of sea salt. London has not seen rain in more than three weeks and the Met Office issued its first hot weather warning of the year this week. The £250m Thames Water facility at Beckton, east London, was switched off last year for maintenance as record-breaking temperatures parched the country. Britain’s only water desalination plant is to remain out of action until July at the earliest owing to delays to critical supplies, even as dry weather stokes fears of hosepipe bans.
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