The ban applies to watering with a hose or sprinkler, washing cars with a hose and filling pools or other similar water use, Vetlanda writes on its website.

The ban applies to watering with a hose or sprinkler, washing cars with a hose and filling pools or other similar water use.

The irrigation ban applies to everyone with municipal water, but industries and businesses that depend on water for their production can apply for an exemption to be exempted.

- We hope that it will help that we go out and ask people to be restrictive, but if necessary, we have the right to cut off the water supply, says VA manager Daniel Mattsson.

In the past, Nässjö and Eksjö have made the same decision.

The water shortage is currently assessed as severe in several places in the Highlands, and in the clip you can see the county board's concern for Emån

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There is currently extremely little water in Emån.

Watch the clip for more images of the drought as well as an explanation of why it looks the way it does.

Photo: Börje Gunnevik/Länsstyrelsen