Guardian Australia · Drought

‘You can see the water going down’: residents on edge as one of England’s worst-hit reservoirs dries up

· By Pippa Neill
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After UK’s hottest summer on record, Ardingly near Haywards Heath is just 19% full – and next-closest reservoir is unusable due to broken treatment works“You can see the water level at Ardingly going down and down. I don’t remember ever seeing it this low,” says Caroline Allan, a lifetime resident of Haywards Heath,…

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