Yorkshire Water hosepipe restrictions lifted

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Temporary hosepipe restrictions across Yorkshire, introduced on 11th July following the driest spring in 132 years and a record-breaking warm summer, have been lifted.

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00:00After months of restrictions and one of the driest springs in more than a century,

00:05Yorkshire residents are now being allowed to use hose pipes again.

00:08A temporary ban was introduced on the 11th of July after the driest spring in 132 years

00:14and a record-breaking warm summer.

00:16Reservoir levels have bounced back to 91.6%, while the Hull Aquafire is at 77%.

00:23Overall, water resources across reservoirs, rivers and groundwater

00:27are now above average for this time of year.

00:30It's a dramatic turnaround from the low point, when reservoir levels had plunged to 30.6%.

00:35According to Yorkshire Water, things could have been far worse.

00:39Without their drought management plan, the ability to move water around the region

00:43and customers' efforts to cut usage, reservoir levels may have fallen to as low as 17.6%.

00:50During the restrictions, the company also stepped up repair work,

00:54fixing nearly 15,000 leaks between April and December,

00:57With 100 extra leakage detectors, they manage repairs over a third faster,

01:03plugging a leak roughly every 25 minutes.

01:06The hose pipe restrictions are estimated to have saved around 3.1 billion litres of water,

01:12the equivalent of 69 days of York's average use, or 21 days of Leeds' use.

01:17At the height of the drought, 22 reservoirs dropped below 20%,

01:21and between April and October, the company had to use 28 drought permits and orders,

01:27helping retain another 4 billion litres of water.

01:30With the ban lifted immediately, Yorkshire Water says it's still focused on long-term resilience,

01:35cutting leakage with a £38 million investment over the next five years,

01:39and working on new boreholes and storage reservoirs to meet growing demand.

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