Ridgeline Water says the drawdown is within licence. The parish council says the licence was written for a different climate. Between them sit four hundred households on a hosepipe ban.
Readers on the water, the weather, and what the valley used to look like in August.
Ken Abbott has serviced three generations of the same families. He is not being replaced.
The vote was five to four. We asked all nine councillors to explain theirs.
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