{"id":271499,"date":"2025-07-18T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271499\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:54:10","slug":"south-east-water-hosepipe-and-sprinkler-ban-comes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/271499\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Water hosepipe and sprinkler ban comes into force"},"content":{"rendered":"

It follows a ban from Yorkshire Water<\/a> which began 11 July \u2013 the first of 2025 \u2013 with Thames Water planning a ban<\/a> from 22 July.<\/p>\n

Southern Water’s ban \u2013 affecting almost one million customers across Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight \u2013 will come into effect from 21 July.<\/p>\n

In May, Southern Water, SES Water and Affinity Water told the BBC they did not expect to introduce water use restrictions<\/a>, such as hosepipe bans, in 2025.<\/p>\n

It comes as the UK has experienced three heatwaves so far this year, with the BBC Weather Centre confirming 1 July as the hottest day of the year<\/a> when 35.8C was recorded in Faversham, Kent.<\/p>\n

The Environment Agency has already said that some areas of the UK are either in drought or a “state of prolonged dry weather”, after the second driest spring on record for England and the sixth overall across the UK.<\/p>\n

Periods of dry weather and low rivers can have consequences for the environment and wildlife,” the Environment Agency said.<\/p>\n

Hot and dry weather can increase wildfires, severely damaging vulnerable areas of heathland and moorland,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“Crop failure is also a major impact of drought while low water levels make navigation difficult on canals and some rivers.”<\/p>\n

None of the water companies with hosepipe bans in place have specified exactly when restrictions will be lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It follows a ban from Yorkshire Water which began 11 July \u2013 the first of 2025 \u2013 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-271499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114873162936809351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271499","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=271499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}