{"id":56186,"date":"2025-08-10T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T02:27:08","slug":"kent-and-sussex-residents-urged-to-use-water-when-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56186\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent and Sussex residents urged to use water when &#8216;essential&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turning off the tap while cleaning your teeth and re-using rain water to tend to the garden were other options mooted.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A SEW spokesperson said: &#8220;Our surface water reservoirs, Ardingly and Arlington, are an important source of water and are falling quicker and earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most of the water in them is taken from the nearby rivers, whose flow is much lower than normal because of multiple heatwaves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The reservoirs have not been this low at this time of year since the drought of 2022 and, with more warm weather due very soon, we&#8217;re asking people protect resources and keep water use around the home to essential purposes only &#8211; namely drinking, washing and cooking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added that the company had &#8220;dramatically stepped up&#8221; its leak repair programme, on which its spends around \u00a340m a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turning off the tap while cleaning your teeth and re-using rain water to tend to the garden were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-56186","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\/56186","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=56186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}