South East water - drought orders for Sussex.

[OhYouBadBadReindeer]

Yep, really. Not surprising really, it has been an incredibly dry year in the south east. But it also seems that mismanagement is also to blame.
report in Telegraph
SE water link

Environment agency activate drought plans talking about a number of counties affected.

Reading the EA reports, unless we get a prolonged wet winter and early spring then large parts of central England look at risk from drought too.