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- Reform UK will end hosepipe bans by scrapping water-reduction targets and easing reservoir red tape.
- England’s reservoirs are at 66 percent capacity, leaving 70 percent of the UK in drought.
- South West Water banned hosepipes in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset.
- United Utilities said there is no hosepipe ban in Greater Manchester and the North West.
- The Prime Minister pledged £65 million and new measures after a Cobra emergency meeting on heat, wildfires and drought.
