First UK hosepipe ban in years being considered as heatwave continues

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Hundreds of homes without water face the prospect of the first hosepipe ban in nearly a decade as temperatures across the UK soared into the 30Cs.

South East Water has warned that their demand – which was a record 696million litres last Friday more than 150 million litres more than normal – is not sustainable.

A hosepipe ban has not yet been issued by the water firm but urged customers to not use sprinklers, hoses and jet washers and to only use water for “drinking, hygiene and cooking.” But Mims Davies, Conservative MP for Mid Sussex, blasted the firm not bringing in a ban quicker after parts of her constituency and growing areas of East Sussex have little or no water - with some households being cut off for six days.