Open water safety plea as heatwave takes hold

BBC England Wednesday 24 June 2026, 05:35 UTC 1 min read

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The county's fire service says people should not "bow to peer pressure" to cool off in rivers and lakes.

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Drowning desert: how Xinjiang’s infrastructure could fail under record rain Unprecedented downpours prompt warning that links and systems adapted to an arid past may struggle to cope with a wetter future Xu Xiaofeng, president of the China Meteorological Service Association and former deputy head of the CMA, said the ecosystems and infrastructure of the country’s northwest could be at greater risk than other regions. “These regions have long been arid, with fewer rivers, lakes or ponds. That...

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Open water safety plea as heatwave takes hold

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