{"id":647816,"date":"2025-12-22T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647816\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:03:10","slug":"suffolk-water-boss-says-new-reservoirs-needed-to-address-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647816\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk water boss says new reservoirs needed to address demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If approved, a water recycling plant capable of producing 11 million litres (2.4 million gallons) of purified water would be built near Lowestoft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two partly buried reservoirs \u2013 one near the existing Lodgewood Water Tower in Sibton, near Saxmundham, and one near Eye airfield \u2013 would also be built, storing water for use during dry periods. About 50 miles (80km) of pipelines would be installed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We currently have sufficient water supplies to support our existing households and business customers, so that is fine and secure,&#8221; said Ms Gower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The challenge we have is meeting the extra demand from new commercial developments and commercial customers who want to connect to our water supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to create the supply capacity and connectivity to be able to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If approved, a water recycling plant capable of producing 11 million litres (2.4 million gallons) of purified water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-647816","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647816","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=647816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}