{"id":724471,"date":"2026-08-02T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724471\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:43:17","slug":"who-is-exempt-from-hosepipe-bans-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724471\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is exempt from hosepipe bans in the South?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the UK experiences one of its driest summers in living memory, millions of people in the south of England are currently living under hosepipe bans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg35n7yny3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Environment Agency announced<\/a> the Thames Valley, Wessex, and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight was experiencing a drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after the Thames, Southern and South East water companies all implemented hosepipe bans for most of their customers across those arid regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parts of Dorset are also affected by a localised South West Water ban, but this is impacting a far smaller number of people than the other three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the water firms&#8217; rules, not everyone can expect a fine for using their hosepipes in areas where there is a ban, with exemptions existing for certain people, as well as businesses and sports clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the UK experiences one of its driest summers in living memory, millions of people in the south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724471","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\/724471","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=724471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}