By Paul Homewood
The period between January and June this year was the driest in England since 1976, the Met Office has said.
With water levels running low, the National Drought Group met on Tuesday to discuss how to cope with conditions.
The group stopped short of declaring a drought but water companies have been putting the early stages of their drought plans into action by urging people to save water.
It comes after the UK’s record temperature was broken last week….
Environment Agency executive director Harvey Bradshaw, who chairs the National Drought Group, said the group would continue to monitor the situation with further dry weather forecast for August.
Nowhere in England is currently considered “in drought” but most of the country except for the north-west has moved into “prolonged dry weather” status, with low river flows which can impact farmers and wildlife.
Months of below-average rainfall has also…
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