Water Table…..
Like most things in the UK if you let it just get to an acceptable level and then hammer it again then there will be trouble, like when you start on the energy gels or sugary sweets on a ride because your knackered, you are just delaying the inevitable.
There needs to be a lot of changes, perhaps full year hosepipe bans. I bike can be washed with a bucket or pressure washer for a lot less water so can your car. Your lawn doesn’t need that much watering and neither do the flower beds.
Some things that happen in the drier parts of Oz (Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth) Using grey water for the garden – washing machine and bath/shower water is used. Our toilet has a hand basin above it so the water filling the cistern has already been used to wash your hands.
No daytime watering of gardens – it just evaporates.
Like most things seeing water in reservoirs doesn’t mean drought is over, it’s a long term problem that needs solving with long tern thinking