Drought declared in the Midlands with more hosepipe bans on the way
East and West Midlands have become the latest areas declared to be in drought, and more Hosepipe bans are expected after Britain’s most dry springs.
The Environmental Agency warned that millions of people will be more affected this summer after the National Drought Group meeting on Tuesday.
The agency said that drought was declared in the West and Eastern Midlands and joined three regions in drought: Cumbria and Lancashire, Yorkshire and Greater Manchester and Merseyside and Cheshire.
Thames Wessex, Solent and South Downs, East Anglia and Lincolnshire and Northamponshire, some of the parts of the next few months, he said.
The Environmental Agency said he expects more companies to see that more companies are adding Hosepipe bans, but will be dependent on rainfall and temperatures in the coming weeks.
Britain, in the coming weeks, 80 percent of the long -term average rainfall and hot temperatures, “drought” status of the total number of total areas of the total number of areas can reach eight.
In order to prepare and combat the effects, the Environmental Agency said that it works closely with the national farmer union and water companies following local authorities to procure them.
Thames Water comes on Tuesday after Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Berkshire became the last service company to announce a Hosepipe ban for customers in some parts of Berkshire.
Stuart Sampson, the Drought Director of the Environmental Agency, said that the situation for farmers has already “worsening ıyla with low levels in irrigation reservoirs that are concerned about the rest of the summer.
While some farmers report poor crop quality and lower efficiency on animal husbandry, fears increase on the effect of conditions on winter feed.
While the Environmental Agency planned the worst of the worst scenario, Met Office’s main meteorologist Will Lang said that July will see more variable air with sporadic rainfall and some hot magic.
And for the long -term look, Mr. Lang said that there was no “strong signal” because it was too dry or extremely wet.
“It can go in both ways, but the most likely situation is that we will have an average rainfall for the United Kingdom and a whole for England and Wales,” he said.
In Yorkshire, the police urged people not to reach them about those who broke the Hosepipe bans, and instead of contacting Yorkshire Water.
The head of the Humberside Police, the chief director of the police, told the BBC that he could “get call operators away from dealing with emergencies or other policing issues”.
