{
  "id": 17215440,
  "title": "‘You can see the water going down’: residents on edge as one of England’s worst-hit reservoirs dries up",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/you-can-see-the-water-going-down-residents-on-edge-as-one-of-englands",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-30T09:00:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/30/haywards-heath-ardingly-reservoir-water-level-drought-england"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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, the nearest town to one of England’s most depleted reservoirs. The Ardingly…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}