This chart is a masterclass in how to make ordinary variation look like a crisis. The biggest problem? The y-axis starts at 500 instead of 0. That massively exaggerates the height differences between the bars, making a relatively modest increase in water demand look dramatic and alarming. 571 ML/d and 670 ML/d are only about a 17% difference — but visually the red bars appear almost twice as large as the green one. Then there’s the colour coding: 🟢 safe 🟡 warning 🟠 danger 🔴 crisis Those thresholds are arbitrary, but the design makes the audience feel like demand suddenly becomes catastrophic at 650. This is why data visualisation ethics matter. Charts shouldn’t be designed to manipulate emotion — they should help people understand reality accurately. A simple zero-based axis and neutral colours would tell the story honestly.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has set out his views on Labour's path forward and the policy challenges facing the country. Speaking to Channel 4 News' Andrew Misra, Burnham said he wanted Labour to become “a party that they can believe in again, a party solidly on the side of working class people.”

Feargal Sharkey, "Water companies... The fines don't work, it's time we actually started upholding the law, and sending some of these executives and directors to jail" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "You think we should put them in jail?" Feargal Sharkey, "If we put one water company boss in jail for six weeks the whole industry would transform itself"

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