Rain is forecast next week but the Environment Agency says weeks of showers are needed to replenish water sources.
He said the Environment Agency, Ofwat and the Drinking Water Inspectorate had formed an alliance to encourage water companies to come forward with plans for necessary improvements to infrastructure.
The firm said it is doing everything it can to get supplies back to normal at the Netley Mill Water Treatment Works, which supplies 8,500 properties in Cranleigh and surrounding areas.A leading firefighter in an area that sawhas said there is a "massive difference" between this summer and the same period last year.
"The first 10 days of August this year, versus last year, we've had 492% more of these types of fires - field fires, grass fires, heathland fires, all those sorts of fires in the open."Water companies are being told they must do more to reduce the number of leaks
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