‘You can see the water going down’: residents on edge as one of England’s worst-hit reservoirs dries up

After UK’s hottest summer on record, Ardingly near Haywards Heath is just 19% full – and next-closest reservoir is unusable due to broken treatment works “You can see the water level at Ardingly going down and down.

I don’t remember ever seeing it this low,” says Caroline Allan, a lifetime resident of Haywards Heath, the nearest town to one of England’s most depleted reservoirs. The Ardingly reservoir, managed by…