LONDON – Britain’s atmosphere minister George Eustice on Wednesday urged water firms to take precautions to guard water provides and deal with the consequences of the extended dry climate as one other heatwave is forecast throughout the nation.
Eustice met with the water firm executives to debate their ongoing response to guard water provides and known as on them to take needed motion akin to fixing leaking pipes.
“I've urged them to take any precautionary steps wanted to guard important provides as we go into a possible very dry autumn,” Eustice mentioned in a press release, including that the nation was experiencing it driest summer season for 50 years.
“All water firms have reassured me that water provides stay resilient throughout the nation.”
Final month, the British authorities mentioned it had launched the early levels of drought plans which concerned utilizing water rigorously to guard provides following record-breaking temperatures.
Two firms, Southern Water and South East Water, have already introduced a brief ban on using sprinklers and hosepipes in components of England, as Britain’s Met Workplace mentioned July 2022 was the driest July for England since 1935.
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