In its first week of official drought, after the hottest July on record, rain-starved Oxfordshire has already seen these predictions realised. University Parks (Image: Isabella Harris/LDRS)University Parks (Image: Isabella Harris/LDRS)Before this assertion, one resident, Angela Mills Wade, had taken to social media warning others to heed the warnings. Wolvercote Mill Stream in Oxford (Image: Supplied)Councillor Linda Smith. He has also called for a "reassessment" of major development impacts amid "increasing water scarcity". The founder of an Oxfordshire waterways campaign group, Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP), Ash Smith said: "The drought always means a disaster for our waterways."