{"id":713921,"date":"2026-07-27T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713921\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:14:08","slug":"more-rivers-face-restrictions-over-significant-water-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713921\/","title":{"rendered":"More rivers face restrictions over &#8216;significant&#8217; water scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McConnell said: &#8220;At this point, temporary restrictions on licensed water abstraction are needed to protect rivers and the wildlife that depends on them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our officers will be out in the affected catchments, working directly with licence holders to help them understand and comply with the temporary restrictions and answer any questions they may have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These decisions are based on measured river conditions, not fixed dates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said that Sepa assessed river flows every day and as soon as river flows recovered the restrictions would be lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our priority is to protect Scotland&#8217;s rivers while ensuring restrictions remain in place only for as long as they&#8217;re needed,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sepa continues to monitor conditions closely, with East Neuk and North Fife also approaching significant water scarcity if river flows do not recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McConnell said: &#8220;At this point, temporary restrictions on licensed water abstraction are needed to protect rivers and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713921","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\/713921","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=713921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}