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Wessex Water Hosepipe Ban in Effect Amid Record Heat: These Everyday Uses Are Now Restricted

Wessex Water enforces a hosepipe ban across Bath, Somerset, Dorset, and Wiltshire amid record heat and dry weather. Learn how it affects outdoor use, exemptions, and conservation tips.

International Business Times UK

Flooding warning as rain finally forecast for drought-stricken land

Wessex Water has introduced a hosepipe ban for 1.4 million customers across the South West, marking its first restriction in 50 years and taking the total number of people affected in England to over 27 million. Met Office forecasters have warned that incoming heavy showers could lead to surface water…

The Independent UK

Temperatures set to tumble as heavy rains bring UK flood threat

The ‘first meaningful rain for a long time’ in parts of the UK could result in surface flooding

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Wessex Water Hits 1.4 Million Customers With First Historic Hosepipe Ban Since 1976 as Drought Worsens

Wessex Water's first hosepipe ban since 1976 will affect 1.4 million customers across Bath, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire as drought worsens.

International Business Times UK

Heavy rain to bring threat of floods after another hosepipe ban announced

Some areas will have the ‘first meaningful rain for a long time’, the Met Office said.

Evening Standard

Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years

The last ban was put in place during the infamous scorching summer of 1976

The Independent UK

Wessex Water announces hosepipe ban as UK faces potential thunderstorms

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Wessex Water announces hosepipe ban for first time in 50 years

The water firm said the temporary use ban will come into effect from midnight on Tuesday for all 1.4 million customers that it supplies.

Evening Standard

Water customers are not a ‘blank cheque’, Burnham tells suppliers

Companies in England and Wales get green light for extra spending that will add billions to bills

The Guardian - UK

Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills

CEO’s pay packet surges to £791,000 as union says public ‘sick of obscene pay’ and bosses ‘feathering own nests’

The Guardian - UK

Five water firms prevented from increasing bills as much as they wanted

The water firms argued they wanted to hike bills after Ofwat’s decision left them unable to meet regulatory requirements

The Independent UK

Five water firms to hike customer bills by less than they wanted after ruling

Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water and Wessex Water will be allowed an average increase of 2.2% in customer bills.

Evening Standard

Paul MacLeavy obituary

Other lives: Drainage engineer who later became a magician, performing professionally, and for charity, in Somerset

The Guardian - UK

Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban

Utility admits parent company paid CEO Ruth Jefferson and CFO Andy Pymer but denies bonus payments

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Former Wessex Water boss received £170,000 bonus despite ban on performance pay

Company owners say bonus was unrelated to water business and complied with ban after pollution conviction

The Independent UK

Wessex Water to pay £11m towards wastewater upgrades after Ofwat investigation

The investment means the firm with around 2.9 million customers in the South West avoids having to pay a fine.

The Guardian - UK

At least 15 English sewage plants use plastic beads spilled at Camber Sands

Exclusive: Experts urge water companies to update plants to avoid another catastrophe, as analysis reveals scale of use

The Independent UK

Major UK water firm warned to improve following £11m fine

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Wessex Water must pay £11m over wastewater failures, says regulator

Company failed to effectively operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater assets, Ofwat finds

Evening Standard

Wessex Water should pay £11m over wastewater failures, says regulator

Ofwat said the failures related to the maintenance of Wessex Water’s network to ensure it could cope with flows of sewage and wastewater.

The Independent UK

Wessex Water ordered to pay £11m over wastewater failures

Ofwat has also said it must reduce spills at specific storm overflows through investment

Evening Standard

Thames Water among six water firms to have bonuses for top bosses blocked

More than £4 million of potential bonuses were banned under new rules on performance-related executive pay, regulator Ofwat said.

The Independent UK

The five utility companies cleared to increase water bill charges

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Evening Standard

Investors stripping cash from water firms ‘criminal’ says ex-Wessex Water chief

Campaigners and experts debated on whether utilities should be nationalised as ministers seek to ‘reset’ the failing sector.

The Independent UK

The water firms banned from paying bonuses to senior bosses under new laws

Campaign group River Action have called the move a “welcome step” but said that increased salaries should be prevented

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