{"id":140757,"date":"2025-05-29T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140757\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:52:09","slug":"drought-declared-across-north-west-england-due-to-low-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140757\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought declared across north-west England due to low water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With further unsettled periods and rainfall over the coming weeks we will continue to closely monitor the situation,&#8221; the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move to drought status for the region was only revealed on Wednesday, and comes following a period classified as &#8220;dry weather status&#8221;, which began on 30 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The agency has warned that drought could put a strain on water resources, lead to dead fish and algal blooms, as well as causing problems in rivers for wildlife trying to move upstream due to reduced flow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has a drought plan in place to manage the dry weather, and to regulate United Utilities to  &#8220;make the best use of available water whilst also protecting the environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The water firm, which supplies water to millions of people across the region, has been contacted for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;With further unsettled periods and rainfall over the coming weeks we will continue to closely monitor the situation,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-140757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114589804396928036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}