United Utilities will force the ban – the first in the north west for 14 years – on the majority of its seven million customers on Friday.
A hosepipe ban on homes in Greater Manchester will begin within the next 48 hours. United Utilities will bring in the restrictions – the first in the north west for 14 years – on the majority of its seven million customers on Friday. Neighbours will be relied upon to shop people breaking the ban and those caught can be fined up to £1,000. But the MEN can reveal that nobody has been convicted of breaking the ban in the north west since the water industry was privatised in the 1989. The last ban began in the hot summer of 1995 and lasted 14 months. Businesses including car washes and garden centres are unaffected. Bosses at the water company are also applying for drought permits to release less water into rivers from Rivington reservoir, near Bolton, and at Longdendale in Derbyshire. It comes a week after the M.E.N. told how the region would need two months of rain in a few days to avoid it.
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Hosepipe ban from Friday after driest weather on record – Manchester Evening News.
