BRITAIN’S three largest water companies will today announce they will be lifting hosepipe bans tomorrow after days of heavy rain.
The three are Anglia Water, Southern Water and Thames Water, who serve more than17 million customers.
A total of seven water companies across southern and eastern England brought in hosepipe bans in early April to combat drought.
A total of seven water companies across southern and eastern England brought in hosepipe bans in early April to combat drought.
wo unusually dry winters had left some groundwater supplies and rivers as low as in the infamous drought year of 1976.
The other four – South East Water, Sutton and East Surrey Water, Veolia Water Central and Veolia Water Southeast – are maintaining their hosepipe bans for now.
A spokesman for Thames Water, the UK's largest water company with 8.8 million customers in London and the Thames Valley area, said: "We have had two-and-a-half times the average rainfall for April, we have had steady showers in May and then monsoon downpours in June. That's changed things."
A spokesman for Anglian Water said that the decision had been made because of a combination of factors combining to ease pressure on the water system: "It's been because of supply and demand, it has recharged. It also is because we have had such a cold, wet May and June following a wet April, which means demand has been suppressed."
A spokesman for Thames Water, the UK's largest water company with 8.8 million customers in London and the Thames Valley area, said: "We have had two-and-a-half times the average rainfall for April, we have had steady showers in May and then monsoon downpours in June. That's changed things."
A spokesman for Anglian Water said that the decision had been made because of a combination of factors combining to ease pressure on the water system: "It's been because of supply and demand, it has recharged. It also is because we have had such a cold, wet May and June following a wet April, which means demand has been suppressed."
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