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Summer has hardly begun and the first hosepipe ban is here
Daily Express
|June 17, 2023
HOME owners were fuming last night after the first hosepipe ban was announced in England with summer barely begun
South East Water said the ban will affect parts of Kent and Sussex from June 26 due to a record demand for drinking water.
Areas of the region have been left with little or no water this week amid baking weather, forcing schools to shut and residents to use bottled water stations.
South East Water said it was providing an extra 120 million litres of water a day, but demand this month has broken records.
David Hinton, the firm's chief executive, said: "Despite asking for customers' help to use water for essential uses only, regrettably we've been left with no choice but to introduce this temporary restriction."
This story is from the June 17, 2023 edition of Daily Express.
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