Hosepipe ban "won't be necessary" in Cambridgeshire this summer
The company says it's reservoirs are over 90% full on average
Anglian Water says a summer hosepipe ban in Cambridgeshire won't be necessary - after one of the county's wettest winter's on record.
The company says it's reservoirs are over 90% full on average - and that "long-term investments" would keep taps running, even if heatwave predictions for this summer come true.
Ian Rule, Director of Water at Anglian Water, said: “It’s clear from this winter that our climate is going to continue to change at an alarming rate meaning periods of drought and flood are going to become more common place."
"While we always welcome a wet winter to replenish our supplies – this winter has been extreme but it does mean we’re in good shape heading into this summer.
“We’ve known that the East likely to see the impacts of the climate emergency more keenly than anywhere else in the UK, and building resilience to climate change, as well as preparing for 720,000 new residents to move to our region, has been at the heart of our long-term planning since the 1990s.
"In fact it is one of the reasons – alongside driving down leakage to industry leading low levels - why we didn’t need to implement a hosepipe ban, unlike other parts of the UK, in the last long hot summer.”