{"id":593835,"date":"2026-08-15T07:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593835\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:12:17","slug":"consumers-urged-to-conserve-water-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593835\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers urged to conserve water in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"232\">People across Western counties are today being urged to continue conserving water as warm and dry conditions continue to put pressure on public water supplies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"340\">In Mayo, water supplies serving Erris, Kiltimagh, Bonniconlon, Mulranny and Achill continue to be closely monitored.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"489\" data-end=\"666\">A nationwide Water Conservation Order also remains in place until August 26th, following an extended period of exceptionally warm and dry weather and increased demand for water.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"855\">Uisce \u00c9ireann says efforts by the public to reduce their water use have helped lower demand in a number of areas, but several water sources remain under pressure and need time to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"989\">Customers are being asked to avoid unnecessary water use where possible, particularly activities such as using hoses and sprinklers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1189\">People are also being encouraged to take simple steps including taking shorter showers, fixing leaking taps and toilets, and only running washing machines and dishwashers when they are fully loaded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1191\" data-end=\"1350\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Uisce \u00c9ireann says every effort is being made to safeguard supplies for homes, businesses, farms, hospitals, vulnerable customers and other essential services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People across Western counties are today being urged to continue conserving water as warm and dry conditions continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-593835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}