{"id":59515,"date":"2025-08-11T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59515\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:00:07","slug":"sensible-water-use-appeal-as-drought-could-last-to-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/59515\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sensible&#8217; water use appeal as drought could last to autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve only had about 50% of the rainfall that we would expect for a normal summer and our reservoirs are less than we&#8217;d want them to be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we&#8217;re asking is that people are sensible, so if they could save a little bit by turning the taps off while brushing their teeth, put the hosepipes away and wash the car a little bit less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Turn those sprinklers off &#8211; a brown lawn is as good as a green lawn at this time of year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn86qxpl2yzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">does not expect the company to have to declare a hosepipe ban.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/weather\/articles\/cz60081dpyxo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An amber heat health alert<\/a> will be in place across the region from Tuesday morning until Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bryan Hemmings, from the Environment Agency, said further dry weather means the drought is likely to continue for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Unfortunately, the long term forecast is for dry, hot weather so there&#8217;s no real replenishment coming in and we continue to take water out of the reservoirs and rivers so we continue in drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This could quite possibly go on certainly through the summer, into autumn, and possibly to the end of autumn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ve only had about 50% of the rainfall that we would expect for a normal summer and our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-59515","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\/59515","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=59515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}