Thames Water has announced a hosepipe ban will begin next Tuesday for customers across a large part of southern England.
Customers in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, most of Wiltshire and some parts of Berkshire will be affected by the incoming ban, beginning next week.
The water company said the measure will be brought in after the Environment Agency placed its area into the “prolonged dry weather category”.
The ban will begin on July 22 for customer in all OX postcodes, all GL postcodes, all SN postcodes as well as customers in RG4, RG8 and RG9 postcodes.
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