{"id":273186,"date":"2025-11-20T08:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273186\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:21:29","slug":"storm-claudia-boosts-yorkshires-reservoir-and-river-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273186\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Claudia boosts Yorkshire’s reservoir and river levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Kaye, director of water services at Yorkshire Water, said: “The impact of Storm Claudia over the weekend, and our continued drought permit activity, has led to another record-breaking uplift of reservoir levels. <\/p>\n

“While nine weeks of positive recovery does not entirely make up for the shortfall left by 28 weeks of decline due to the driest spring and summer on record<\/a> in the region, it represents a very encouraging step in the right direction.”<\/p>\n

There were still “varied levels of recovery” across Yorkshire and the firm was “working hard to balance those supplies and move water around via our grid network”, Mr Kaye said.<\/p>\n

“But, in some cases, this is not possible, and those reservoirs need to recover naturally through rainfall.<\/p>\n

“That being said, when we introduced the restrictions in July, we said we would remove them as soon as resources recovered, and that aim has not changed.”<\/p>\n

The hosepipe ban has meant more than five million householders in Yorkshire have been barred<\/a> from from watering the garden, washing the car, filling paddling pools or cleaning windows using a hose.<\/p>\n

Anyone caught flouting the restrictions is also subject to a potential fine. <\/p>\n

Mr Kaye said: “We would like to thank customers in their efforts to stick to the temporary restrictions and those taking steps to conserve water resources.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Kaye, director of water services at Yorkshire Water, said: “The impact of Storm Claudia over the weekend,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-273186","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\/273186","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=273186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}