{"id":687932,"date":"2026-07-12T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687932\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:08:10","slug":"severn-trent-water-records-highest-ever-demand-amid-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687932\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn Trent Water records highest ever demand amid heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A water company says it has recorded its highest level of demand on record and called on customers to reduce their usage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Severn Trent, which supplies more than eight million people in England and Wales &#8211; including 4.8m homes and businesses in the Midlands &#8211; said demand on Saturday outstripped previous records set during the 2022 drought and Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm reported water use was &#8220;significantly higher&#8221; than normal, with demand elevated for longer each day and into the night during recent hot weather &#8211; the second heatwave of the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the last few days, demand was at almost 2.4 billion litres, working out as an extra 400 million litres more than usual each day, Severn Trent said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The volume was enough to provide water to two million people, or the equivalent of 700 million pints, the company added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm partially put this down to more water being used for activities including watering gardens and filling paddling pools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water company says it has recorded its highest level of demand on record and called on customers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687932","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\/687932","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=687932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}