{"id":750229,"date":"2026-08-26T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750229\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:48:08","slug":"bristol-water-issues-2026-hosepipe-ban-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750229\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Water issues 2026 hosepipe ban &#8211; what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A water company has announced its first hosepipe ban caused by drought in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Water said the restriction &#8211; which bans people from using hosepipes for watering gardens, washing cars or filling paddling pools &#8211;  would come into force from 00:01 BST on Thursday to protect the River Severn&#8217;s resources. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Half of the UK&#8217;s water companies &#8211; including Wessex Water, Thames Water and South West Water &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2lzvv904do\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have now announced hosepipe bans<\/a>, as most of England is in drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Introducing a hosepipe ban is never a decision we take lightly, and we fully appreciate the inconvenience it will cause,&#8221; said Richard Stanbrook, director for drinking water services at Bristol Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This marks the first hosepipe ban in the Bristol Water area caused by drought since 1975, when a dry summer was then followed by 16 months of low rainfall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The supplier then introduced a short ban in 1990 because of a hole in the bottom of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, which then collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water company has announced its first hosepipe ban caused by drought in more than 50 years. Bristol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750229","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\/750229","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=750229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}