A water credits scheme that was designed to offset huge housing development plans for Cambridge is doomed to fail because there are “not enough plumbers in the region” to do the work needed. The government-devised system allows developers to offset their development through the purchase and sale of water credits to ensure they have a neutral impact on water scarcity within Cambridge. However, Cambridge Past, Present and Future, the city’s largest civic society, says it has “no confidence that a water credit system will solve Greater Cambridge’s water scarcity and planning problem”. After doing…
