{"id":179401,"date":"2025-06-12T21:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179401\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:44:09","slug":"hosepipe-ban-extended-until-august-in-three-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179401\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosepipe ban extended until August in three areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hosepipe ban which has been in place in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Milford in Co Donegal and the Kells\/Oldcastle areas of Co Meath since early May has been extended by another seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It is set to remain in place until after the August Bank Holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Uisce \u00c9ireann said while recent weeks have brought cooler and wetter weather, water supplies in several parts of the country remain under significant pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, 21 supplies remain in drought status, and Uisce \u00c9ireann said it continues to monitor and manage these areas closely.<\/p>\n<p>It said that it would take several weeks of sustained rainfall to allow affected water sources to recover to normal levels.<\/p>\n<p>It said that forecasts also indicate a likely return to warmer, drier weather from next week, which could further increase demand and place additional strain on already stressed supplies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although we&#8217;ve seen some welcome rainfall, the long-term effects of a dry autumn, winter and spring are still being felt&#8221; said Margaret Attridge, Head of Water Operations at Uisce \u00c9ireann.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some water sources have not recovered to sustainable levels, and so extending the water conservation order is necessary to protect these vulnerable supplies&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nationally there are 21 locations across the country which remain in drought status across counties Westmeath, Donegal, Meath, Cork, Clare, Galway, Waterford, Wexford, Tipperary, Offaly and Laois&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hand holding water hose over black bucket with soap suds and sponge to was a car on gravel drive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0022b695-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nUisce \u00c9ireann said using a hosepipe for one hour is the equivalent of the daily water usage of an average family<\/p>\n<p>A water conservation order, commonly referred to as a hosepipe ban, prohibits the use of garden hosepipes and other non-essential uses of water by domestic users and commercial premises for non-commercial activities.<\/p>\n<p>The prohibited water uses during the hosepipe ban include the use of water drawn through a hosepipe or similar apparatus for the purpose of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watering a garden<\/li>\n<li>cleaning a private motor-vehicle using a domestic hosepipe<\/li>\n<li>cleaning a private leisure boat<\/li>\n<li>filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool (except when using hand-held containers filled directly from a tap)<\/li>\n<li>filling or maintaining a domestic pond (excluding fish ponds)<\/li>\n<li>filling or maintaining an ornamental fountain (with the exception of such use for commercial purposes)<\/li>\n<li>filling or replenishing an artificial pond, lake or similar application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conservation order, which was issued initially on 6 May, will remain in place until Monday, 4 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hosepipe ban which has been in place in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Milford in Co Donegal and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-179401","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\/114672583783012893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179401","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=179401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}