Northumbrian Water are encouraging people to use water responsibly during heatwave
The North East is under an amber heat health alert until Saturday
Northumbrian Water are urging us to use water responsibly during the ongoing heatwave.
They say water demand across the region increases with the rising temperatures.
Luke Paxton, household water demand manager at Northumbrian Water, said: "What we ask our customers to do is be responsible as possible with their water consumption because during heat waves we see spikes in demand, like people being in the garden more, people consume more water in the home, wanting to cool off in the shower at the end of a long day. So, all of those sorts of things have a real impact on our demand.
"As that demand increases, if you duplicate that over our whole water resource zones, all of a sudden pressure levels can drop, for example, and the water that goes into those homes can decrease ever so slightly.
"Some people might enjoy taking baths and we recommend if they could take showers. We know that sprinklers and hose pipes, they can use up to like 1000 litres of water per hour and when you begin to quantify that, that's an astronomical amount of water.
"There is plenty of water. Our reservoirs are all 86% full at the moment, which is kind of normal for this kind of year. From a water demand perspective, the reservoirs are looking very healthy, but we are also doing our bits to tackle things like leakage."