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Thames Water executive can't rule out ramping-up customer restrictions if UK suffers another dry winter - Sky News

Thames Water executive can't rule out ramping-up customer restrictions if UK suffers another dry winter - Sky News

Thames Water executive can't rule out ramping-up customer restrictions if UK suffers another dry winter - Sky News
Aug 10, 2022 1 min, 7 secs

A senior Thames Water executive has told Sky News that the company can't rule out "ramping up" restrictions for customers if the UK suffers another dry winter.

The medium to long-term forecast is also dry, and she said she hoped customers "will respond to the request to use water wisely"?

Thames Water supplies 15 million customers across London and the Thames Valley.

"What we are hoping is that our customers will respond to the request to use water wisely, they will do what we're asking them to do by not using hosepipes, and that will mean that we can conserve those water stocks so we can get through even a dry winter without having to ramp-up restrictions.

Environment Secretary George Eustice has met water company bosses, who he said assured him that supplies remained resilient across the country

Thames Water loses about a quarter of its supply through ageing pipes and Ms Ross admitted the firm "haven't got a great record on fixing leaks" but they are "prioritising leakage"

Ms Ross said the company is fixing nearly 1,100 leaks a week and has 300 people working around the clock to find leaks

Meanwhile, Thames Water brought in bottled water for residents in the village of Northend in Oxfordshire and pumped water into the network, after supplies were hit by what it said was a technical issue at Stokenchurch Reservoir

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