Heavy rainfall this spring means customers are unlikely to face a hosepipe ban this summer, according to Severn Trent Water.
Resources of water in the region were "healthy", the water company said, following a wet May which saw rainfall up by 30 per cent on the average.
Water resources strategy manager Marcus O'Kane said a hosepipe ban was "unlikely" whatever the weather had in store for us over the summer.
"We are confident we're in a good position to provide our customers with a continuous supply of water throughout the summer and the rest of the year," he said. "The region is supplied with a mixture of reservoir, groundwater and river water sources, all of which are in a healthy state with reservoirs just under 93 per cent full on average."
Mercury weather man Dave Mutton recorded 88.5mm (3.48in) of rain in the county in May, up by 57 per cent on the average.
He said: "I'm not surprised the reservoirs are well stocked. Rainfall for the first five months of the year was well above average."
But June's rainfall so far is below average. He said: "Normally, we would get 62.2mm (2.45 in) but we've hardly had an inch up until now."
