{"id":656253,"date":"2026-06-24T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656253\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:53:19","slug":"use-water-wisely-during-heatwave-yorkshire-water-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656253\/","title":{"rendered":"Use water wisely during heatwave, Yorkshire Water says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire Water has urged customers to &#8220;use water wisely&#8221; as demand spikes with temperatures topping 30C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said customers had on Tuesday used 150m litres more water than the average for this time of year &#8211; enough to supply Leeds for a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demand has grown during the heatwave, with people filling paddling pools, watering gardens and taking more showers &#8211; as well as quenching their thirst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Customers are advised to switch from hoses to watering cans, turn off taps while brushing teeth and repair drips and leaks as demand for water increases through the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Running washing machines and dishwashers with full loads and using paddling pool water for plants would also help save resources, Yorkshire Water said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said it expected to distribute 1.49bn litres of water on the hottest day of the heatwave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head of Water Production Andy Shaw said: &#8220;Small changes by everyone can make a big difference and help save thousands of litres of water.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yorkshire Water has urged customers to &#8220;use water wisely&#8221; as demand spikes with temperatures topping 30C. The company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656253","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\/656253","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=656253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}