Telegraph: Four of Britain's biggest water companies Severn Trent, Affinity, South East and Yorkshire told customers to cut back and use water "wisely" as temperatures hit a record 32 degrees centigrade.
The Met Office issued a "level three heat health watch" for London and the south-east amid predictions that July could be the driest since records began 247 years ago.
Affinity, a water company that supplies three-and-a-half million homes across north London and the home counties, issued an alert admitting...