Residents have been left angry at a “painful” hosepipe ban that will impact hundreds of thousands of people in Wiltshire.

Successive heatwaves are causing Britain’s rivers to run worrying low, sparking mass fish kills and threatening harvests. On Tuesday, the East and West Midlands officially entered drought, joining the ...

United Utilities bosses have urged people to ‘reduce’ any ‘unnecessary use’ of water after a sustained period of dry weather. Despite plenty of rain forecast for the next fortnight, United Utilities ...