Yorkshire to ban hosapipe in water county

A hosspipe ban affecting more than five million people in Yorkshire will be applicable from Friday.

Yorkshire Water said that the region had experienced its dry and hot spring on records with only 15 cm of rain between February and June – less than half in an average year.

Yorkshire is the first part of the UK facing restrictions on the use of water amidst extended magic of dry weather across the country.

Dave Kay, director of Water at Yorkshire Water, said the ban is “to ensure that we have sufficient supply to the essential needs of the people this year and to ensure that we are able to protect our local environment”.

The restriction applies to most parts of the Yorkshire, parts of the northern Lincolnshire and parts of Derbyshire.

This restrictions the use of a hospy for activities such as watering the garden, washing the car or filling the paddling pool.

Any person imposing a ban can be fined up to £ 1,000,

Comes after the ban Environment agency declared drought in the entire region Last month.

At the national level, England recorded their hottest June on records after dry spring for 132 years.

According to Yorkshire Water, the reservoir level currently exceeds only 50% – a record for the time of the year and the average “below” in the beginning of July, which is near 80%.

Mr. Kya said that water supply would be at the top of rainfall in spring normally, but the shares of the reservoir were falling from the last week of January.

Recently Downpores “helped a little”, he said, but he said “continuously high temperatures and more dry weather” only increased water use.

“With more dry weather forecast in the coming weeks, it is likely that our shares will continue to fall.

“We need to work now to supply clean water and maintain long -term river health.”

Mr. Kay said that the ban has not seen significant rainfall to bring back reservoirs and groundwater stocks, where they need to be “.

He said: “It can live in the winter months.”

Questions are likely to be asked about why the region is facing its second hosspipe ban in just three years and whether its water supply is quite strong.

It is striking that the reservoir of Yorkshire, which was filled in late January, lost half of its capacity in just five months.

There is no doubt that the rain has been exceptionally low since February.

But at a time when climate is changing – there are three extraordinary dried springs in the last 14 years – the demand for water has increased rapidly.

The population of Yorkshire has increased by about 500,000 since 2000, but no new reservoir has been created since the thruscross in the Washburn Valley in 1966.

In the short term, Yorkshire Water will be expecting that the measures announced today would be sufficient to slow down the decline in the reservoir level until the return and supply of rain is compensated.

But, in the long term, with joint challenges of climate change and population growth, water restrictions can be very common.