Southern Water has become the latest company to impose a hosepipe ban.
Almost a million customers across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are affected.
The Temporary Use Ban – commonly known as a hosepipe ban – follows the driest spring in over 100 years, and the warmest June on record, which has put rivers under serious strain.
In Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, the Test and Itchen chalk streams supply most of the water, but are at critically low levels, down 24 per cent on normal flows for this time of year.
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