{"id":68439,"date":"2025-08-15T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68439\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:18:09","slug":"river-levels-close-to-being-critically-low-warns-sepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68439\/","title":{"rendered":"River levels close to being critically low, warns Sepa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eilidh Johnston, Sepa&#8217;s senior manager in water industry and rural economy, said a number of rivers remained under &#8220;sustained pressure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Approaching significant scarcity for the third time this year\u202fin some areas highlights the vulnerability of eastern Scotland&#8217;s water environment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We understand that after such a long period the message may feel repetitive, and it&#8217;s easy to assume that rainfall will arrive in time to ease the pressure as it has before. But there&#8217;s no guarantee that will happen this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ironically, the warning by Sepa was issued just hours before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy85vvnvv8jo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavy downpours caused flooding in Dundee and mudslides in Aberdeenshire. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office had issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Sepa says the ground is often so dry that rainfall is running off rather than soaking into the ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eilidh Johnston, Sepa&#8217;s senior manager in water industry and rural economy, said a number of rivers remained under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-68439","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\/68439","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=68439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}