{"id":235545,"date":"2025-10-31T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235545\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:04:07","slug":"southern-water-lifts-hampshire-hosepipe-ban-after-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235545\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Water lifts Hampshire hosepipe ban after three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Southern Water introduced the ban in July to reduce the pressure on the Test and Itchen rivers, after a long period of dry weather.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The ban has been lifted this morning, with Southern Water saying this is thanks to September and October&#8217;s wetter weather and the efforts of the company&#8217;s leakage team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While the ban was in place, the company says around 1,700 leaks were found and fixed, saving more than 17 million litres of water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The company thanked its customers for their efforts in saving millions of litres of water every day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tim McMahon, Southern Water\u2019s director of water, said: &#8220;We\u2019re incredibly grateful to our customers for their support and understanding during this challenging time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;By working together, we\u2019ve not only saved millions of litres of water each day, but also helped protect our precious chalk streams.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This is a great example of how working together can make a real difference to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/campaigns\/greenwatch\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">environment<\/a>.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Test and Itchen rivers supply drinking water to most of Southern Water&#8217;s customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rivers are home to rare wildlife and delicate ecosystems, so reducing the need to abstract water from them during a very dry period has been critical in protecting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern Water introduced the ban in July to reduce the pressure on the Test and Itchen rivers, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-235545","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\/235545","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=235545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}