{"id":752681,"date":"2026-08-28T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:50:10","slug":"drought-causing-burst-pipes-in-warwickshire-warns-severn-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752681\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought causing burst pipes in Warwickshire, warns Severn Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drought refers to a period of prolonged unusually dry weather that can have impacts on people, nature and the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarke said the firm takes leakages seriously and urges residents who see any burst pipes to contact Severn Trent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are really trying to stay on top of it and push forward \u2013 we are getting out there fixing 60,000 leaks a year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">July 2026 was the driest for England and Wales since records began 190 years ago, according to the Met Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hot weather has continued throughout the summer, however there was some relief on Thursday evening in the West Midlands when storms struck the region bringing heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are going to need the whole autumn and winter to get back to those seasonal norms and regular rainfall to recharge all the reservoirs and the rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sadly, it is going to take months and months to recover&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Severn Trent is planning as far ahead as 2085, assessing how it will meet future water demand and adapt to the impacts of climate change, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drought refers to a period of prolonged unusually dry weather that can have impacts on people, nature and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752681","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\/752681","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=752681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}