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- Wessex Water will ban water use for 1.4 million customers from midnight Tuesday.
- Ministers may impose bans on non-essential uses such as car washes and pool refills.
- Southern Water submitted the first NEUB request, pending Dame Angela Eagle's decision.
- About 27 million English residents live in hose-pipe-ban zones as reservoir levels fall.
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham banned disposable barbecues and urged no open fires, while South Wales fire services fought 14 wildfires.
