Met Office
The temporary water use ban will come into effect next Tuesday
Villagers of Northend, Oxfordshire have been given bottled water
Thames Water has said it will announce the timing of the “temporary” measure soon
Environment Secretary has urged companies to introduce hosepipe bans to safeguard UK’s reservoirs
Households have been urged to cut their water consumption in the wake of hosepipe bans
National Grid ESO report suggests on 19th July the UK saw a peak in energy demand
Lower Rhine River levels mean that the company might need to cut output at a coal fire plant in Germany
The hosepipe ban in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight aims to protect the habitats of rivers in these regions
Without human-caused climate change, the heatwave would have been 2°C to 4°C
‘Human influence’ will see temperatures like these ten times more likely in the future, it says