{"id":277798,"date":"2025-11-22T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277798\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:26:13","slug":"wet-winter-needed-to-avoid-2026-drought-says-environment-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277798\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet winter needed to avoid 2026 drought says Environment Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy8dv6l2jlzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has plans <\/a>to increase the number of reservoirs to increase water supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes discussions on adding a second reservoir in Cheddar in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Withers says this &#8220;is definitely a good thing to be doing,&#8221; and will improve &#8220;long-term resilience,&#8221; provided that we get the rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he added members of the public should not underestimate the impact that decisions they make about their own water usage could have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even small actions, if they&#8217;re done many times by many people will make a big difference,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Using water responsibly in the bathroom, in the kitchen and in the garden will make a difference to everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government has plans to increase the number of reservoirs to increase water supply. This includes discussions on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-277798","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\/277798","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=277798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}