{"id":346171,"date":"2025-08-15T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346171\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:23:09","slug":"half-full-reservoirs-in-west-of-england-prompt-plea-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346171\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-full reservoirs in West of England prompt plea to public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Drought Group, which comprises representatives from organisations including the Environment Agency, Met Office, water firms and regulators, made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declaration of a nationally significant water shortfall, external<\/a> after meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five regions in England, mainly in the North, have drought status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Drought Group&#8217;s chairwoman, Helen Wakeham, said it was calling on &#8220;everyone to play their part and help reduce the pressure on our water environment&#8221; following six months of below-average rainfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Water said it did not have plans for a hosepipe ban but was monitoring the situation closely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Small actions \u2013 like taking shorter showers or using a watering can instead of a hose \u2013 can all add up,&#8221; a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said it had been investing in major leakage reductions, which was &#8220;already having an impact&#8221;, and had given thousands of customers free water-saving devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Drought Group, which comprises representatives from organisations including the Environment Agency, Met Office, water firms and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346171","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\/115032057749613331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346171","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=346171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}