Is there a hosepipe ban in my area? Enter your postcode to check whether a hosepipe ban (Temporary Use Ban) or other water-use restriction applies where you live — verified against your water company’s own announcements.

Check if there's a hosepipe ban in your area. Enter your UK postcode to find your water company and current Temporary Use Ban status for summer 2026.

Enter your postcode to find your water supplier and its current hosepipe ban status. Our postcode lookup currently recognises some suppliers only; if it can’t, choose from the list. In Scotland the public supplier is Scottish Water; in Northern Ireland it is NI Water.

South West Water brought in a temporary hosepipe ban on 8 August for customers in Devon, Cornwall, parts of Dorset and Somerset and the Isles of Scilly.

A hosepipe ban is a Temporary Use Ban made by a water company under the Water Industry Act 1991. It restricts named uses of a hosepipe — watering a garden, filling a pool, cleaning a vehicle — for the customers that company supplies, and each company sets its own exceptions.

Check if there's a hosepipe ban at your address. Enter your postcode, see which UK water companies have a ban right now, and find your county and the map.

Estimate your drinking-water supplier from a full postcode and check dated UK hosepipe-restriction sources.

Wessex Water’s hosepipe ban will come into effect on August 18th, impacting 1.4 million customers across Bath, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. It joins several other water companies that have...

The Standard’s interactive map shows where hosepipe bans are currently in place. Under temporary hose pipe bans, households cannot use hosepipes for non-essential tasks.

But is your area affected? Thames Water has become the latest company to announce a hosepipe ban, affecting more than 10 million users.