“We should not expect a hosepipe ban every year,” Mr Vinson said.<\/p>\n
“What we’d expect is Yorkshire Water working with agencies, such as the Environment Agency, to devise their system so it’s a rare occurrence to have a hosepipe ban.”<\/p>\n
However, Dr Klaar warned we could still start seeing the bans more often due to the climate changing.<\/p>\n
“We call it ‘weather whiplash’, when we start seeing these really long dry periods followed by these really intense rainstorms,” she said.<\/p>\n
“This is because our climate is warming and warmer air and a warmer climate means more water is being held in the atmosphere. <\/p>\n
“So when it rains, we’re going to get these really intense rainstorms.”<\/p>\n
Mr Kaye said he believed that despite climate change, long-term data suggested customers could get through 2026 without a ban.<\/p>\n
“But I can’t say what the weather’s going to be like, or what the summer’s going to be like,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We had eight months of dry weather. It was the driest weather on record, the warmest summer on record, and that’s a result of climate change. <\/p>\n
“I can’t say what next year or 2027 is going to look like, but hopefully we’re in a good position, certainly to get through 2026.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We should not expect a hosepipe ban every year,” Mr Vinson said. “What we’d expect is Yorkshire Water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-629838","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\/115711361845033784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629838","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=629838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}