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The odds of a hosepipe ban "anywhere in the UK" have been slashed by half by leading bookmaker Coral due to the continued spate of hot weather.
Coral said that it halved the odds from 8-1 to 4-1 today following temperatures that hit more than thirty degrees centigrade in some parts of the UK over the weekend.
In “real terms” according to Coral this now means a one-in-five or 20% chance that a hosepipe ban will come into force over the summer months from one of the country’s water networks.
During April 2013 several companies imposed hosepipe bans. South East Water, Sutton and East Surrey Water, Veolia Water Central and Veolia Water Southeast (now Affinity) ended their hosepipe bans after months of heavy rainfall. Anglian Water, Southern Water and Thames Water had lifted their bans in June.
A spokesman for the Environment Agency, said: “We don’t anticipate any drought, but we do always encourage people to use water wisely.”
A Met Office spokesman said of the long range weather forecast, “[for the rest of July] across the south it should be fairly dry, with a good deal of sunshine, and just a small risk of an isolated shower in the south, but potential for some isolated thundery showers elsewhere in the country”.
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