{"id":446387,"date":"2025-09-23T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/446387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:45:13","slug":"south-east-water-hosepipe-ban-under-constant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/446387\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Water hosepipe ban under &#8216;constant review&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanking customers for reducing their water use since July, Mr Price said that while leak repair programmes had been &#8220;drastically stepped up&#8221;, the levels of surface water reservoirs in Sussex were continuing to fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite the rain we have experienced recently, Ardingly Reservoir is now at its lowest point in over 12 months at 32.4% full &#8211; a level we do not usually see until later in the year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re asking our customers to keep water use around the home to essential purposes only: drinking, washing and cooking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK&#8217;s summer in 2025 was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyjkze510ro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warmest on record<\/a> and its spring was the driest in 50 years, according to the Met Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm previously said it saw the highest levels of water usage of the year on 30 June, reaching 680-million litres \u2013 105 million litres of water a day more than the average for summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanking customers for reducing their water use since July, Mr Price said that while leak repair programmes had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-446387","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\/115254861755339493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446387","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=446387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}