{"id":2570,"date":"2019-07-22T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:34:58","slug":"fallon-urges-water-regulator-to-get-tough-on-thames-water-abstraction-in-the-darent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"Fallon urges water regulator to get tough on Thames Water abstraction in the Darent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir Michael Fallon has this week urged OFWAT, the\nregulator for water in England and Wales, to take a tougher stance on water abstraction\nfrom the Darent River in response to an appeal from the Darent River Preservation\nSociety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Darent, which consists of clean chalk aquifers fed\nsolely by rainfall, is routinely abstracted from by Thames Water \u2013 even though\nthe South East is the region with the lowest levels of rainfall in the\ncountry.&nbsp; The Sevenoaks MP has warned\nthat continued abstraction is \u2018unsustainable\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir Michael said: \u201cAt current levels, the Darent is set to run dry. \u00a0That is even before you consider the nearly 24,000 new homes both Sevenoaks District Council and Dartford Borough Council have been instructed to build in the coming years.\u00a0 OFWAT must exercise greater control over unrestricted abstraction and hold companies like Thames Water properly accountable for their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Letter-to-OFWAT-re-Darent-River-1-1-e1563806031560.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Michael Fallon has this week urged OFWAT, the regulator for water in England and Wales, to take a tougher stance on water abstraction from the Darent River in response to an appeal from the Darent River Preservation Society. The Darent, which consists of clean chalk aquifers fed solely by rainfall, is routinely abstracted from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fallon urges water regulator to get tough on Thames Water abstraction in the Darent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}