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This is the driest summer in 50 years.

Water companies say hosepipe bans are put in place to help protect river habitats. helen briggs reports. you can normally swim in this part of the river anton, but now water levels are so low, you can wade across. and you can tell from the cool, clear water, we're in a chalk river — a rare and beautiful place that's home to wildlife such as trout, otters and kingfishers. how precious is this habitat, and how do we better protect this river and the wildlife in it? this habitat is really precious, and that's because it has been filtered through this chalk, and then comes out very cool and clea...

The rare chalk stream fails to meet 'good ecological status' according to river's water observatory ChessWatch.

Order to exert less toll on the landscape, it's really important that we look at chalk streams and trying to re—naturalise the flows of chalk streams as best we can. as well as streams and rivers in london and the south—east, water comes from underground aquifers and reservoirs. across the south—east at the moment, we use 6 billion litres a day. by 2060, with population growth, we could need an extra 2.6 billion litres. climate change and more frequent droughts means supply needs to be made more resilient. today, consultation outlined how. the first thing is the leakage, but also to— t...

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