@SaraR
My hair is now down to my waist again. I haven't had short hair in nearly forty years. I'm not cutting it now.
Besides, where I live there's no shortage of water. There's a burn runs right along side the garden, there are two major and a couple of middling sized rivers and a huge loch all within walking distance of the house.....and though mostly piped another three burns and I know where the 18/19th century village wells were sited......and it rains, it really does rain. Even today, in the middle of a heatwave, we had rain this morning. Not a lot, but it was rain.
Three weeks no rain around here and we're thinking it's a drought
I genuinely don't know how the rest of the world manages without water.
My bother jokes about it, "Scot ? it's written in the contract with the maker, must be rained on twice a day! ".
My Australian SIL (other bother's missus) visited and was horrified at the waste of water that to us is just normality.....and then complained that it rained 12 out of the 14 days she was in Scotland!
The UK on the whole....well the London bit apart.....doesn't have much of a problem with lack of water. We're on Atlantic Islands, a bit of forethought, a decent bit of catchment and there ought to be no problem.
M