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Thames Water is discussing four potential drought permits with the Environment Agency, following below average rainfall in 19 of the last 24 months.
The permits, to allow extra abstraction at sites including Lower Thames, are expected to be needed from mid-June onwards.
The company’s London reservoirs are 96 per cent full but groundwater and river flows are below average and it is running Beckton desalination plant.
In the Midlands, the Environment Agency is monitoring Severn Trent’s Draycote reservoir, which stands at 57 per cent of capacity.
Severn Trent maintains it will not need a drought permit or to impose a hosepipe ban, and is even proposing to transfer water to neighbouring Anglian Water.
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