West and Eastern Midlands have been declared drought And Over -hospipe restriction One of the dried springs of the UK is expected to be introduced on the record after one.
Environment agency has warned Millions of people Expected to enter “Drought” status After the national dried group in summer – a alliance of sector leaders and officials – met on Tuesday.
Champion Said that drought has been declared in West and Eastern Midlands. Parts of Temes Wessex, Salent and South Downs, East Anglia and parts of Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are likely to be dried in the next few months.
West and East Midlands will include three regions of the UK – Cumbria and Lancashire, Yorkshire and Great Manchester, Merceyside and Cheshire – which are already in drought.
Circumstances have inspired three water companies in these areas that the Met Office said that the UK had drought spring for more than 50 years.
The environment agency said that it hopes that other companies will be seen following their own hosspipe ban as they stick to their dried plans, although it will also depend on rainfall and temperature in the coming weeks.
If England receives 80 percent of its long -term average rainfall and warm temperature in the coming weeks, the total number of areas given to the “drought” status may reach eight by September, the watchdog was forecast.
To prepare and deal with the effects, the environment agency said that it is working closely with water companies, which are also following the National Farmers Union and local authorities along with their dried plans to ensure supply.
This Temes Water became the latest utility to declare a hosspipe ban, which would begin on the next Tuesday to customers in Oxfordshire, Glostershair, Most Wiltshire and parts of Berkshire.
Dry manager of the environment agency Stuart Sampson said the situation for farmers is already “deteriorating” with low levels in irrigation reservoirs, indicating concerns for the rest of the summer.
Some farmers are reporting low yields on livestock along with poor crop quality, while fear is increasing on the effect that winter feeds may occur.
While the environment agency plans for its appropriate worst situation, the Chief Meteorologist of the Will Office, Will Lang, said that there is a possibility of seeing sporadic rainfall and some warm mantras in July.
And for a long -term approach, Mr. Lang said that it is “no strong sign” to be very dry or extremely wet “.
He said, “It can go in any way, but most likely we will have average rainfall for the UK and somewhere as a whole for England and Wales.”
In Yorskaare, the police urged people not to contact Yorkshire’s water, not about the beating of hospipe bans.
Trishi Bradley, Chief Superintendent of Hamberside Police, told the BBC that the call “Call handlers can be overcome by dealing with emergency or other policing cases”.
