{"id":155824,"date":"2025-09-23T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155824\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:44:07","slug":"south-east-water-hosepipe-ban-under-constant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155824\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Water hosepipe ban under &#8216;constant review&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanking customers for reducing their water use since July, Mr Price said that while leak repair programmes had been &#8220;drastically stepped up&#8221;, the levels of surface water reservoirs in Sussex were continuing to fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite the rain we have experienced recently, Ardingly Reservoir is now at its lowest point in over 12 months at 32.4% full &#8211; a level we do not usually see until later in the year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re asking our customers to keep water use around the home to essential purposes only: drinking, washing and cooking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK&#8217;s summer in 2025 was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyjkze510ro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warmest on record<\/a> and its spring was the driest in 50 years, according to the Met Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm previously said it saw the highest levels of water usage of the year on 30 June, reaching 680-million litres \u2013 105 million litres of water a day more than the average for summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanking customers for reducing their water use since July, Mr Price said that while leak repair programmes had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-155824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}