内容摘要：“You want to keep yourself from getting into this unmanageable cycle of debt,” McClary said.

“You want to keep yourself from getting into this unmanageable cycle of debt,” McClary said.

Although households are the biggest users of water in Scotland, its industrial uses are also a factor in the overall consumption rates.Water - both rainfall and surface water - is critical to the production of the country's most famous export, whisky.

This is why distilleries are paying close attention to projections that suggest there will beElsewhere, water from rivers and burns is also vital to Scotland's agricultural sector.Soft fruit and vegetable production, mainly based in the south and east of the country, often requires large volumes of water to irrigate crops.

This is especially true in dry periods like the current one.Heavy industry like chemical plants are also big consumers of water, with the Grangemouth industrial complex historically one of the biggest daily users of mains water in the UK.

Part of Scottish Water's plan to try and get Scotland's consumption rates closer to English rates is to get people thinking about the water they use.

The utility firm is embarking on a pilot project in Dundee to install "smart" monitors for around 2,000 homes over a three-year period.Meanwhile, the males, which are six to seven times more toxic than the females, are used for the antivenom programme and milked every two weeks, Emma explains.

The pipette she uses to remove the venom from the fangs is attached to a suction hose - crucial for collecting as much venom as possible, since each spider provides only small amounts.While a few drops is enough to kill, scientists need to milk 200 of these spiders to have enough to fill one vial of antivenom.

A marine biologist by training, Emma never expected to spend her days milking spiders. In fact, she started off working with seals.But now she wouldn't have it any other way. Emma loves all things arachnid, and goes under various nicknames - spider girl, spider mama, even "weirdo", as her daughter calls her.