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I'm sure they'll be empty again before summer is over. Mostly because we've massively increased population and not built any new resevoires in something like 30 years.
At least that new one's currently under construction in Hampshire. Sort of wish the others currently in the works could be hurried up a bit - but on the other hand, the phrase "rushed reservoir" doesn't inspire much hope, so maybe not.
If you mean it's going to be fed by a water treatment plant - that's literally how all drinking water gets to your tap, one way or another. Either it's purified by machine, or the water cycle does it for us.
Southern Water (one of the worst of the polluting water companies), is actually building a new reservoir! Somewhere near Portsmouth I think it is. It's a 10-15 year project though!
No doubt there's some tax or loophole being exploited as they do it, and no doubt the local's water bills are going to go up to pay for it.
It depends where you live. Most companies have a tracker of their reservoir levels online these days.
https://www.unitedutilities.com/help-and-support/your-water-supply/your-reservoirs/reservoir-levels/
Not in Cornwall, the main one for Cornwall is about 75% full despite it raining non-stop for months. The ground is saturated but there are so many leaks that it isn't full. But if levels go too far down it's fine, they will just tell the locals to not use hose pipes and save where they can so there is enough for the tourists (they actually did this 2 summers ago).
>The ground is saturated but there are so many leaks that it isn't full.
I think you're mixing up lakes which are filled by natural water courses, and drinking water which is distributed via pipes that experience leakage. If a dam is leaking that is a major problem which usually undermines it's structural integrity.
Just use the [gov.uk](http://gov.uk) site that provides the data for the above site?
Select from postcode, river name or map [https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/river-and-sea-levels](https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/river-and-sea-levels)
Not entirely no
Picking a random water company
https://www.stwater.co.uk/about-us/reservoir-levels/raw-water-storage-levels-2-february-2026/
Rain does not automatically mean full reservoirs....the water companies are still constrained by the Environment Agency licences for abstraction
Doesn't matter if they're full or not, they don't have the capacity to get us through a prolonged drought. The water companies use their revenue to pay shareholders dividends and CEO bonuses, instead of building more capacity.
The water companies have been trying to build reservoirs for decades because the more infrastructure they build the more profit they make and the bigger the CEOs bonus is.
However the government has refused to let the water companies build them over and over again because civil servants and politicians don’t get bonuses when the people get basic necessities in life.
This is why public ownership of utilities is awful for the people compared to well regulated private ownership.
Potentially. But most domestic supply comes either from abstraction at point such as rivers, boreholes, artesian wells and aquifers. The water is then treated and stored in reservoirs with the most capacity. (This goes for underground reservoirs too).
Supply will also get shunted about depending on the areas with the most demand.
So while an outdoor reservoir might appear to be full, groundwater water levels are a far better indicator of whether we’ll have a hosepipe ban or not.
Ex water company employee.
I did the Google thing for you and for United Utilities at least reservoirs are at about 90% capacity, this is significantly higher than this time last year, but down a little from an average year.
The River Dee in Chester was rising last week as the body that controls the reservoirs has been emptying them to make room for the upcoming rain. So, yes, kind of full
Due to the distribution of water companies you have to search a bit on their own sites. These are some of the best reports I found though. Many of the sites just had vague statements rather than data.
The conclusion seems to be, not as full as you'd think!
https://www.stwater.co.uk/about-us/reservoir-levels/
https://www.southwestwater.co.uk/environment/water-resources/reservoir-levels
https://www.nwl.co.uk/help-and-support/water/water-resources/
https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/performance/reservoir-levels-and-rainfall-figures
This site has the collected reports when they're published. Haven't had one for January yet though
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-situation-local-area-reports
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