But areas with a drought order - such as Sutton and East Surrey Water - can impose specific restrictions on non-essential water use.
However, the firm said it could now rule out applying for a Drought Order allowing it to impose more serious restrictions on water use.
It takes 10 weeks to apply to the secretary of state for a drought order and he says Thames Water might apply for one anyway as a "precautionary measure", even if it doesn't have to use it.
And at the end of last year, South East Water was granted a drought order to use water from the River Ouse to refill Ardingly Reservoir in Sussex.
The American company withdrew from the deal, vaunted at the time as an exemplary privatisation, due to a drought in orders caused in part by the euro-zone crisis.
The People's Congress of Yunnan Province published the Ordinance of Water-Saving in Yunnan2 in 2012 in response to the 2009 2010 drought in order to promote water saving and increase water-use efficiency.
Nevertheless, the late-spring rains have made the cheatgrass grow again in northern Nevada -- and that is one reason the Filippini ranching family decided to turn out cattle to graze there this week in defiance of drought closures ordered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Mr. Leek, Mr. Davala and others compare the current drought in boat orders to the one in 1991, when a recession and federal luxury tax throttled yacht sales and nearly put Viking out of business.
After a three-year drought in purchase orders, the nation's fleet is, on average, over seven years old, older than it has been since 1993.
These include: meteorological - shortage of rainfall and evaporation; hydrological - reduced river flows, low groundwater levels; environmental - dry soils, stress on habitats and wildlife; agricultural - dry soils, need for irrigation, stress on growing plants; and public supply - low reservoir storage, high demands and need for customer appeals and restrictions, drought permits and orders.
