The Environment Secretary is calling on water companies to enforce an entire hosepipe ban before a second heatwave arrives next week.
The Environment Secretary is calling on water companies to introduce an entire hosepipe ban amid warnings of an ‘unusually dry’ August and a second heatwave.
This means possible restrictions up and down the country for people watering their gardens, washing cars or filling pools. George Eustice wrote in The Sunday Telegraph: ‘In accordance with their drought plans, water companies across the country have rightly taken action to mitigate the effects of this prolonged dry weather using the range of tools available to them.hosepipe ban imposed by two water firms – South East Water and Southern Water.There is no indication about how long the hosepipe ban will last and it is the first imposed since 2012.
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