This is the last Last Word. Every two weeks, for over 10 years, I've produced Global Water Report - first for the Financial Times, and then for Platts - sometimes from a laptop on a hotel balcony overlooking Rome, from Tbilisi, Hong Kong, wherever water ferried me. But mostly, from my office here in Scotland, overlooking a field of sheep and a white horse up on the hillside, the Jed Water running down to join the Teviot and the Tweed a few feet from my door. I remember pacing the river bank, trying to work out what flow rates in cubic meters per second actually meant. I worked out the value of a salmon to the tourist trade here and kept a regular eye on water levels as I passed one of Northumbrian Water's huge reservoirs whilst driving over the moors past Hadrian's Wall en route to Newcastle airport and another trip down to my other office in Canary Wharf.
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