{"id":190684,"date":"2025-10-10T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190684\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:56:08","slug":"drought-declared-in-sussex-due-to-declining-reservoir-levels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190684\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought declared in Sussex due to declining reservoir levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living in the drought zone have been urged to continue using a little water as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn4ljnlyk8ro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosepipe ban<\/a> will remain in place until water supply is secured, the EA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard O&#8217;Callaghan, area environment manager at the EA, said: &#8220;Autumn and winter may feel like there is an excess of water at hand, but the climate is changing, and we must be sensible about water use all the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A few bursts of recent rainfall do not undo several dry months of cumulative impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It will take sustained rainfall to address prolonged dry weather and replenish reservoirs and rivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Surrey and the rest of East and West Sussex remain in prolonged dry weather status, the EA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People living in the drought zone have been urged to continue using a little water as possible. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190684","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\/190684","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=190684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}