Supplier tells businesses not to use more water and will refuse new non-domestic connections.
Businesses in a "seriously water stressed" area have been told not to use any more water than they currently consume.
The "moratorium", the letter said, meant the water company would be "unable to agree" to "new mains water connections" for "non-domestic purposes"."Consequently, for the time being, you should not plan to increase your mains water use if it is for non-domestic purposes," the letter said.in August last year. Since then businesses have been hearing how it may affect them.
Cranswick Country Foods runs a poultry processing plant in Eye and wants to build an animal feed mill next door.show it wants to dig its own reservoir 2.8km from the facility. That would be fed by water from the River Waveney, another 3.7km away.Ben Schofield/BBCCranswick would not say how much the proposals may cost but said it would need a "significant investment".
"But what we know is that for businesses there isn't the same level of protection as there is for households.Kieran Ingram said Essex & Suffolk Water was "sympathetic" to businesses affected by the policyplan Kieran Ingram, the company's group water director, said: "When we looked at making sure have we got enough water for everyone, the answer is 'no', simply we don't."
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