Water scarcity warnings for parts of Scotland

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has issued water scarcity warnings for areas around the Firth of Tay and Firth of Forth.

The risk of water scarcity for areas around the rivers Don (Aberdeenshire), Tay, Earn and Clyde has now been raised to early warning, the environmental regulator has announced. Parts of the east, along with Kintyre, Irvine and Ayr, and the Cree area of Galloway remain at early warning, noted SEPA.

While much of Scotland has experienced a wet summer so far, some regions have experienced drier than average conditions. Recent limited rainfall, particularly across more central parts of Scotland, has meant that ground conditions and river flows have deteriorated across much of the country.

Ground conditions remain quite dry across much of the east and parts of the south-west.