{"id":671212,"date":"2026-07-03T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671212\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:16:15","slug":"hosepipe-ban-for-hampshire-and-isle-of-wight-southern-water-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671212\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosepipe ban for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Southern Water customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In June, we&#8217;ve actually seen a third of the flow and so the models have just not necessarily predicted that,&#8221; said Tania Flasck, director of water operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we&#8217;ve actually measured the levels we&#8217;ve seen it&#8217;s dropped down a lot, a lot further and faster than we&#8217;ve anticipated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Households are being asked to use watering cans or buckets for activities such as watering gardens, filling paddling pools or washing cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southern Water said investment in infrastructure, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cn482z3xrl3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK&#8217;s first new reservoir for 30 years<\/a>, would help stop it taking water from the Test and Itchen rivers by 2040.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Vignaux, executive director of the Test and Itchen Association, said: &#8220;&#8230;we have no reservoirs here and all the water comes from the river or from the aquifer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And effectively, if you take water from our rivers and aquifers, you&#8217;re taking water from nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;In June, we&#8217;ve actually seen a third of the flow and so the models have just not necessarily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671212","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=671212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}