{"id":235965,"date":"2025-10-31T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235965\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:23:10","slug":"southern-water-lifts-hosepipe-ban-after-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235965\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Water lifts hosepipe ban after three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ban, for nearly a million customers, prevented the use of hosepipes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly808d6yzpo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most circumstances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parts of Hampshire, including the area covered by Portsmouth Water, were not affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In principle, people breaching the ban could be fined up to \u00a31,000, although Southern Water previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8rp23yxxvvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declined to comment<\/a> on whether that had ever happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm said wetter weather in September and October had alleviated the emergency, together with a programme of leak repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said future developments would make supplies more resilient, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr42k36dveyo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planned new reservoir at Havant Thicket<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yx5pv604lo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">water recycling schemes<\/a> and importing water from other regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neighbouring Thames Water <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czr1vderej4o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said on Monday<\/a> it would continue with a hosepipe ban in parts of Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ban, for nearly a million customers, prevented the use of hosepipes in most circumstances. Parts of Hampshire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-235965","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\/235965","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=235965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}