{"id":701388,"date":"2026-07-20T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:29:11","slug":"south-east-water-announces-new-hosepipe-ban-for-sussex-surrey-hampshire-and-berkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701388\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Water announces new hosepipe ban for Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I think there&#8217;s quite a lot of frustration out there from people&#8217;published at 10:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman with short, blonde hair wearing a high vis yellow jacket.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1c3be7dd-7e65-4ba9-b9d8-479534a6222f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1034\" height=\"581\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC South East&#8217;s environment correspondent Fiona Irving said &#8220;you could probably see from a while off&#8221; that the hosepipe ban was coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC Radio Sussex, she said: &#8220;I think what people will be very frustrated about is<br \/>\nthat South East Water (SEW) loses 100 million litres of water a day through leaks and the hosepipe<br \/>\nban will save 3-7% of water from the network. So that&#8217;s less than they lose<br \/>\nevery day from leaks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So yes, you can&#8217;t magic water out of thin air, you have to<br \/>\nwait for the rain and you have to find ways of storing it and that takes time, but<br \/>\nyou can sort your leaks out and SEW say they are doing that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are one of<br \/>\nthe best performers for sorting leaks out, they say, but when you&#8217;re losing 100 million litres of water a day through leaks and then you&#8217;re calling on your customers<br \/>\nto stop using their hosepipes, I think there&#8217;s quite a lot of frustration out<br \/>\nthere from people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I think there&#8217;s quite a lot of frustration out there from people&#8217;published at 10:32 BST 10:32 BST BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701388","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\/701388","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=701388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}