{"id":703398,"date":"2026-07-21T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703398\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:17:11","slug":"thames-water-announces-hosepipe-ban-for-10-1m-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703398\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for 10.1m customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Water has announced a hosepipe ban affecting 10.1 million customers after an &#8220;exceptionally warm and dry spring&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The restrictions mean, from Thursday, hosepipes should not be used for watering gardens or allotments, cleaning cars, filling paddling pools or swimming pools, or cleaning windows. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The water company said its region had seen 40% of average rainfall, and more days at or above 34C this year than ever recorded before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nevil Muncaster, director of strategic water resources, said: &#8220;We would not be taking this step unless it was necessary to protect water supplies for everyone and the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ban applies to all customers that Thames Water supplies with drinking water and comes into effect on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company provides water to customers across parts of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Surrey, the Thames Valley, Greater London, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thameswater.co.uk\/developers\/larger-scale-developments\/planning-your-development\/where-our-pipes-are\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and the surrounding areas, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It provides water and wastewater services to 16 million customers overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said water use was currently 10% above normal in the Thames Valley and Home Counties and 7% above normal in London, which amounted to an extra 100 million litres of water every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thames Water has announced a hosepipe ban affecting 10.1 million customers after an &#8220;exceptionally warm and dry spring&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703398","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\/703398","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=703398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}