BBCScotland is known for its rain, which is famous as a green, green, sogi nation.
not this year.
Since 1964, the water level is below average after dried spring and has a warm heat.
The problem is particularly acute in the east of the country, where the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) is now offering curb on some water use.
It states that the two catchment areas – a significant decrease in the Aberdeenshire and North Murali had reached the highest level alerts.
This means that the rivers have reached a significant level after being very low for 30 or more days.
Restrictions are being imposed in the coming days, which limit water removal from the natural environment around two rivers for industry and agriculture, a process known as abstraction.
Seepa stated that without continuous rainfall periods, other areas – which include Devern and Dawn in Aberdeenshire – may also increase significant decrease in the coming days.
However, there is some uncertainty about the effects of the remains of the pre-Towper Erin, which is due to bringing wet weather at the end of this week.
The SEPA stated that the restrictions follow the “months of the deteriorating conditions”, with every month of 2025 from the average on the eastern coast of Scotland.
Scotland has not received a hospipe ban since 1995 and there is no plan to introduce one.
However, supply is under stress. Twenty miles north of the dandi, the backwater reservoir in Glenisla in Angus is less than half.
With elasticity near Lontrethane, the reservoir supplies drinking water to 300,000 people in Scotland’s fourth largest city and surrounding area.
This is worrying, publicly owned utility, the economic demand manager in Scottish water accepts Brian Macarthi.
“If this extended dry period continues towards autumn and winter, it will be for the next year and subsequent supply,” he warns.
And the backwater is emptying at a quick rate.
As the nation enjoyed the late summer sun in August, the demand for water increased from 1,850 million liters to 1,950 million liters to 100 million liters per day.
In response, the Scottish water pass river is considering installing a temporary network of pipes and pumps to move water from Isala to the reservoir.
This will require permission from SEPA that should consider the impact of any such scheme on the natural environment.
Below the backwater, in the foot of Angus Glans, is located in the small town of Kirimuir – known as the birthplace of JM Barry, the creator of Peter Pan.
Last week, underground tanks that keep the city’s water supply from the backwater and Lanthane went down and had to top by the tanker.
The vehicle was one of a fleet of 25 Scottish Water Lauries that has been on the move in the last few weeks, transferring supply across the country.
Often this means carrying water from the strongest sources in the west of Scotland, which is usually wet, in the east.
Scottish Water says that the average reservoir level in the east of Scotland last week was 57%. This figure was 24% below 81% average for the time of year.
The levels in the west were healthy, where they stood at 76% – which was 5% less than the late summer average.
The Met Office says that the coasts of Eastern Lothian, Murali and More Farth receive less than 700 mm of rainfall in an average year, unlike the Western Scottish Highlands where the annual is more than 4,000 mm.
Mr. Macarthi says that there is a possibility of becoming a more pressure issue in the coming years.
“Our long -term estimates suggest that the population will move towards the east of the country,” they explain.
A part of the problem, he moves forward, Scotland has a relationship with rain, and the perception that in the land of more than 30,000 freshwater, the water must definitely be abundant.
This, Senior lecturer in Environment at the University of Eberte at Dundi, Dr. Rebecca emphasizes Wade, just not the case.
“Our climate is changing, which means that sometimes we have very little water, which we are using,” she tells.
“Also, when we receive rain, it comes in a separate pattern.
“So we can find a very intense low storm, and it can also cause localized floods, but at the same time, it does not resolve dried conditions because it is not recharging groundwater. It is not filling the reservoirs.”
Keeping this in mind, Scottish Water is trying to convince its customers to use less water.
In 2023/24, Scotland had 140 liters of water per capita average in England and Wales as compared to 178 liters.
A difference is that water is not measured and charged directly in Scotland, where purifying, pumping and pipe around the goods is funded through council tax.
Althoughough scottish water says there is no plan to change it, it is running a meter -related test in the dandi.
Brian Macarthi says that this idea is to persuade people to voluntarily cut back to cut how much water they are using.
Reducing the use, he says, “will have a major impact on the stability of the supply for the future.”
Dr. “We have got the same population in England as Yorkshire County in England, but they use 40% less water as a population in Scotland.”
A simple solution, she says, for Scotland, they start using untreated rainwater to water the gardens, wash cars and flush the toilet instead of using precious drinking water.
Dr. Wade says, not only we are using more water, but “as our climate dries our industries and needs to attract our agriculture over water – so it increases the condition.
“As we draw water from the natural environment, it has a major impact on ecology and biodiversity.”
All this is a big challenge for agriculture.
On the Merns of the Kernboro Farm near Huntley in Aberdeenshire, springs that provide drinking water for 240 cattle have dried up, causing farmer Nikola Verdie to push the water.
At least once a day, she fills a large plastic tank of water and takes it from the farm to the field in the loader.
“We’re going at least once if not to fill this pool twice a day,” she tells me in a vehicle cab, stating that the trips to ensure that cows have enough water to survive “.
This is not tall because there was an opposite problem in a 1,400 acre field, Record-breaking is drenched with rain,
“Last year it was finally wet for months and now it’s total opposite and we are dry for months,” says Ms. Vardi.
“This is extreme for each other.
“We are going to customize.”
Climate scientists Whiplash swings in the middle of these extreme weather And they affect all of us.
There is a decrease in Parched Farmland and the price of food increases, while the water falls more valuable than ever.
Dr. Ved says, “We are seeing effects on wildlife and environment, fish population, migrant species”.
“We are very lucky in Scotland that we have water resources.
“Now is the time to start using them more wisely and to be favorable for climate change so that we do not finish with more of these extreme conditions.”
