{"id":668258,"date":"2026-07-01T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:37:08","slug":"jersey-water-demand-highest-since-2022-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668258\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey water demand highest since 2022 drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Islanders are being urged to use water “wisely” after the demand during June’s heatwave was the highest since the 2022 drought.<\/p>\n

Jersey Water said people used 159 million litres (35 million gallons) or nearly 5% of stored water last week as temperatures reached a peak of 39.2C (103F) on Thursday 25 June.<\/p>\n

It said water levels at reservoirs at Queen’s Valley and Val de la Mare are in a “good position” at 89% capacity but warned it “could drop fast with another heatwave<\/a> on the horizon”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said water supplies were “finite”, with supplies for 120 days when reservoirs were full “so every drop counts”.<\/p>\n

They urged customers “to use water wisely and avoid waste – small changes by everyone make a big difference”.<\/p>\n

Jersey Water said its desalination plant at La Rosi\u00e8re, Corbiere, was ready if it needsed to boost supplies and added if islanders cut their water use , external<\/a>now it would “make the quickest difference and help avoid restrictions later in the summer\/autumn”.<\/p>\n

Tips include using water from washing fruit and vegetables for watering plants in the garden and not leaving the tap running while cleaning teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islanders are being urged to use water “wisely” after the demand during June’s heatwave was the highest since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668258","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\/668258","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=668258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}