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Water companies urge gardeners to “value water”
“Small bursts of rain are not enough”
Water companies are warning gardeners to hold back on using sprinklers as UK water usage leapt by up to 40 per cent above normal levels in spring to early summer. The exceptionally hot and dry weather coincided with lockdown, when at least half the nation was actively gardening and watering more.
The Met Office has been forecasting a warmer-than-average summer for 2020. Professor Liz Bentley of the Royal Meteorological Society says long-term trends show high pressure prevailing – bringing hot, dry weather. “There is a consistent weather pattern of too much rain or too little rain,” she tells us. “It’s
