As Britain swelters through its third heatwave, cutting water waste has never mattered more |
As we swelter through the third heatwave of this summer, we know we are making an ask of people to use water wisely, but it is important.
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It seems almost every day a new weather record is being set – on Thursday we saw the eighth consecutive day of temperatures at or above 34°C, and it is only natural that people will use more water during these temperatures. They need to cool down and stay hydrated and want to enjoy the hot weather, but that accumulated demand is huge.
At Thames Water we have seen daily household water use increase by an average of about 20 per cent. That equates to hundreds of millions of litres of water a day that is taken from local sources in the environment and treated to drinking standard before it flows from the taps of 10 million customers. Although our network........