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  • 08/07/2025
Yorkshire Water has announced hosepipe restrictions will be brought in from Friday in an effort to protect water supplies ahead of a predicted warm summer. The organisation said the region has experienced both the driest and warmest spring on record this year, receiving just 15cm of rainfall between February and June, less than half what is expected in an average year. #yorkshire #drought
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00:00Hello, I'm Greg Wright of the Yorkshire Post. Yorkshire Water has announced that hosepipe
00:06restrictions will be brought in from Friday. Yorkshire Water said that Yorkshire has experienced
00:13both the driest and warmest spring on record this year, receiving just 15 centimetres of
00:21rainfall between February and June, which is less than half what is expected in an average year.
00:28Yorkshire Water's Director of Water, Dave Kay, said we need to take action now to help conserve water
00:34and protect Yorkshire's environment. That means from Friday this week, people across Yorkshire
00:40will need to stop using their hosepipes to water their gardens, wash their cars or for any other
00:47activities.

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