{"id":708943,"date":"2026-07-24T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708943\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:26:10","slug":"water-restrictions-put-in-place-to-protect-borders-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708943\/","title":{"rendered":"Water restrictions put in place to protect Borders rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A water abstraction licence is an official authorisation from Sepa to take water from rivers, lochs, streams, or underground sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McConnell said they would work with licence holders to &#8220;help them understand and comply with the temporary restrictions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While some rain is forecast over the coming days, recovery depends on sustained improvements in river flows rather than rainfall on a single day,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue to monitor conditions closely and lift restrictions as soon as conditions allow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sepa said it was &#8220;too soon to know&#8221; whether rain over the weekend would bring sufficient recovery to the areas most impacted by the dry weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It continues to monitor conditions closely with the Lower Tweed, Lunan Water, Lower Don, Fife (East Neuk) and North Fife approaching significant water scarcity next week if river flows do not recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water abstraction licence is an official authorisation from Sepa to take water from rivers, lochs, streams, or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708943","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\/708943","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=708943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}