Brits are being urged to keep a jug of water in the fridge and wash their dogs outside, as a drought has been declared across large parts of the country.
Eight areas of England were formally declared in a drought on Friday, August 12, due to high temperatures and low rainfall.
Devon and Cornwall, Solent and South Downs, Kent, south London and East Sussex, Herts and north London, East Anglia, Thames, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, and the East Midlands were affected, according to the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs.
