According to the latest reading on its website, taken on 13 July, the capacity of Severn Trent’s reservoirs was at about 77.4%.<\/p>\n
“That is OK for the time of year,” Perry said, “but\u2026 if consumption is high through the summer, it can drain those [the reservoirs] down quicker than we would like.<\/p>\n
“That’s why it’s important customers use water wisely.”<\/p>\n
At Tittesworth Reservoir near Leek, Staffordshire \u2013 one of the company’s smallest \u2013 capacity was at about 55%.<\/p>\n
“It does drain down a bit more quickly than some of our others, so it’s not unusual, but it is one of the early warnings for us to be getting the message out,” Perry added.<\/p>\n
“If customers use water wisely, that gives us the best chance of getting through the summer without any restrictions.”<\/p>\n
Perry said overall, the reservoirs were in better shape than they were last year due to 2026 being wetter.<\/p>\n
“If you cast your minds back to last year it was very hot but it was also very dry,” he added.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a bit wetter so our reservoir position is broadly in a better place than it was last year, which is good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the latest reading on its website, taken on 13 July, the capacity of Severn Trent’s reservoirs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699618","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=699618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}