Overview
- Stocks rose by 14.8 percentage points in a week, reaching an average 45.6% across the region, Yorkshire Water said.
- Levels are below the seasonal average of 69.6%, so Yorkshire stays in formal drought and the household hosepipe ban continues.
- Recharged rivers and groundwater now allow increased river abstraction under drought permits to support further recovery.
- Recent inflows included over 3 billion litres at Scar House, 2.7 billion at Grimwith, about 900 million at Langsett, and 750 million at Digley.
- Yorkshire Water says it is fixing more than 800 leaks each week and plans to lay over 1,000km of new pipes in five years, as the national drought group warns water scarcity persists in England.