{"id":805746,"date":"2026-10-17T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805746\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:56:14","slug":"saving-water-must-be-year-round-not-just-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805746\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving water must be year-round not just summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Melville-Shreeve, associate professor in technology and innovation at the University of Exeter&#8217;s centre for resilience in environment, water and waste, said: &#8220;I think people perhaps don&#8217;t really realise how much water we can use at home&#8230; it&#8217;s something we can nibble away at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the key thing with a severe drought is what we need to maintain good behaviour and habits related to being water efficient throughout the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said reservoirs were operating on long timescales so if people saved on water through the winter, it would then be available in the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Saving water and minimising water demand in the summer is not the requirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to be constantly aware of this and be efficient throughout the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Environment Agency (EA) said water supplies had been significantly impacted by high demand following the &#8220;exceptionally hot and dry summer&#8221;, record temperatures and prolonged periods without any rainfall which is set to continue for the rest of October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rather than replenishing during the autumn, reservoir levels have continued to fall with Wimbleball on Exmoor, which supplies water to about 400,000 people including Exeter, dropping to 14.9% capacity in South West Water&#8217;s latest data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Melville-Shreeve, associate professor in technology and innovation at the University of Exeter&#8217;s centre for resilience in environment,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805746","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\/805746","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=805746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}