TOPSHOT - Gerald Owenson reacts as he talks about the dry river bed of the Infant River Thames, outside his house in Ashton Keynes, on August 8, 2022. - The source of the Thames has dried up and has shifted more than 5 miles downstream from Thames Head near Cirencester in Gloucestershire. Swathes of southern and eastern England recorded the lowest rainfall in July 2022 on record, the UK's Met Office. The whole of England recorded an average of 23.1 mm of rain -- the lowest figure for the month since 1935 and the seventh lowest July total on record, it said. (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP)