Environment Agency

“71.3% of England is currently in drought”

“England recorded its driest July on record, with some areas receiving no rain. Meanwhile, water firms are losing 2.6 billion litres of water each day due to leakages, per Environment Agency data.”

“The official assessment of 4,658 rivers, lakes, estuaries and groundwater found that just 14.3 per cent are classed as being in “good” ecological health, with many suffering due to sewage pollution.”

“Pevensey Bay in East Sussex was also swept by heavy rain, with 32mm recorded over the last 24 hours, according to the Environment Agency.”

“firewater run off”

“Water from Kielder Reservoir has been released into the River Wear since 13 July, according to the Environment Agency (EA).”

“Last month was the driest July experienced by north-east England since 2006.”

“rainfall in the Wear catchment was 'exceptionally low' and was only about 13% of the long-term average.”

“Kielder Reservoir was last used to top up the Wear in 2022.”

“England has received just 4mm of rain so far in August, or six per cent of the long-term average for the month, the Environment Agency said on Friday.”

“It follows the driest July on record for the country, when only 7mm of rain was measured, or 10 per cent of the average.”

“The ongoing dry weather means that reservoir storage for England now stands at 66 per cent, down from 69 per cent a week ago and nearly 14 percentage points below the long-term average for the time o…”

“Storage stood at 85 per cent at the end of June, but has fallen steadily in recent weeks.”

“Five reservoirs are currently classed as having ‘exceptionally low’ levels: Clatworthy in Somerset (48 per cent full); Clywedog in Powys, which provides water for central and north-west England (56 p…”

“only around one in seven classed as being in good ecological condition”

“15% of rivers are classed as good”

“fewer than 7% of lakes reached that level”

“No single waterway passed a separate test for chemical pollution”

“around half of rivers still exceeding safe levels”

“down about half from 2019”

“only 8% in Germany and just 1% in the Netherlands”

“half of England was in drought.”

“There are currently 1,353 of these restrictions in place.”

“nearly 80% of England's rivers are seeing flows below normal or lower”

“The EA says that by the company's own assessment, it avoided penalties of the order of £45m, and on the EA's assessment the figure is higher.”

“The EA advised against bathing at Seaton Carew North, Seaton Carew Centre, Seaton Carew North Gare, Redcar Coatham, Redcar Lifeboat Station, Redcar Granville, Redcar Stray, Marske Sands and Saltburn.”

“whose numbers it says have dropped dramatically”

“£8.2m project”

“protect up to 160 homes”

“two steel gates, weighing 300 tonnes”

“There are more than 450 sites across the country where regular testing is carried out”

“The Environment Agency said a 6km (3.7 mile) stretch was affected in what it described as a 'significant incident'.”

“30 'vole hotspots'”

“the remaining two populations in Devon still very small,”