Hosepipe bans might become a regular part of the summer season in Yorkshire.
Yorkshire Water say they are looking at ways to deal with the future impacts of climate change and population growth, but say there could be future restrictions.
Paul Carter from the utility company says this years hosepipe ban, which ended earlier in the week, did its job.
28 million litres of water a day was saved though Yorkshire's hosepipe ban this summer.
Paul Carter says that Yorkshire Water is lookign at long term schemes to deal with increasingly warm summers but says that hosepipe bans could well become a more regular summer feature.
The hosepipe ban was introduced at the end of August and was lifted on Tuesday. Paul says it took the regions reservoirs some time to recover to normal levels.
Yorkshire Water says it managed to cope this summer in part through it's ability to move water around the region, but Paul Carter says that is a relatively expensive thing to do.
Yorkshire is still classified as within drought by the Environment Agency but Yorkshire Water said this week that thanks to “everyone’s efforts to save water” and a wetter than average autumn, the temporary hosepipe restrictions could now be lifted.
Neil Dewis, director of water at Yorkshire Water, said:
“We’re really grateful to our customers for their efforts to save water whilst the weather was drier than usual. Thanks to a number of emergency drought schemes, drought permits, increased leakage activity, rainfall, and everyone’s efforts to save water, reservoirs are now looking much healthier – with the average level across the region now at 75%.”
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