“The North West and Yorkshire are officially in drought status, with a risk of drought moving into the North East, Midlands and East Anglia if the weather remains unusually hot and dry,” an Environment Agency spokesperson told *The i Paper.*
“We urge people to be mindful that slightly reducing their daily water use this summer will benefit our rivers and lakes, and the wildlife they support,” they added.
Eastern Scotland and northern and eastern Wales are also in danger of moving into drought as they are classed as being in “prolonged dry weather” status – one rung below a drought.
The soil in the pic is so degraded that you could pour an entire river into this and it wouldn’t help. There’s little to hold water once everything is killed by heat, no microbes, nutrition, nothing to compost into soil etc. Our pretty clean gardens are the precursor to this, as is modern day farming. We needed to emulate nature’s practices, and nature is messy.
AND still Republicans addicted to right wing media say “it’s summer duh!”. We’re all screwed
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The Midlands, East Anglia and the north-east of England are at high risk of drought if the hot, dry weather persists next month, the [Environment Agency](https://inews.co.uk/topic/environment-agency?srsltid=AfmBOoqbGG8Ii8jbAU716XqEBUhIP0NDY25d8gHVhDDenIHhoyYysIYn&ico=in-line_link) has warned.
This could pile further pressure on farmers and potentially push up some supermarket prices, retailers have warned.
Following the driest spring in England for 132 years – and with [temperatures forecast to hit 34°C on Monday](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/a-hot-weekend-in-prospect-for-some) – the Environment Agency has already declared a drought in two parts of northern England, with several other areas of Britain in danger of following in the coming weeks.
“The North West and Yorkshire are officially in drought status, with a risk of drought moving into the North East, Midlands and East Anglia if the weather remains unusually hot and dry,” an Environment Agency spokesperson told *The i Paper.*
“We urge people to be mindful that slightly reducing their daily water use this summer will benefit our rivers and lakes, and the wildlife they support,” they added.
Eastern Scotland and northern and eastern Wales are also in danger of moving into drought as they are classed as being in “prolonged dry weather” status – one rung below a drought.
The soil in the pic is so degraded that you could pour an entire river into this and it wouldn’t help. There’s little to hold water once everything is killed by heat, no microbes, nutrition, nothing to compost into soil etc. Our pretty clean gardens are the precursor to this, as is modern day farming. We needed to emulate nature’s practices, and nature is messy.
AND still Republicans addicted to right wing media say “it’s summer duh!”. We’re all screwed
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