{"id":684397,"date":"2026-07-10T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:05:11","slug":"what-will-anglian-water-and-cambridge-water-hosepipe-ban-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684397\/","title":{"rendered":"What will Anglian Water and Cambridge Water hosepipe ban mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cambridge Water supplies drinking water to about 350,000 customers across Cambridgeshire and parts of Hertfordshire, including Cambridge, Ramsey, Gamlingay, Balsham, Melbourn, Royston and Baldock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its ban, announced on Thursday, is also with immediate effect, with restrictions becoming enforceable from 01:00 BST on 17 July, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managing director Elena Karpathakis said: &#8220;This is not a decision we have taken lightly \u2013 it is the first time in more than 30 years, since the UK drought of 1995, that we have had to introduce a temporary hosepipe ban.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, the company&#8217;s director of water quality and environment, Natalie Ackroyd, said it was committed to removing the ban &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That will depend upon demand reducing to more normal levels and our water resources being in a more healthy position,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cambridge Water supplies drinking water to about 350,000 customers across Cambridgeshire and parts of Hertfordshire, including Cambridge, Ramsey,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-684397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684397","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=684397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}