United Utilities has cancelled its hosepipe ban days before it was due to start after rainfall replenished the water supply.
The company was due to bring in the restrictions on 5 August but said that slightly cooler temperatures, recent rainfall and water-saving efforts by its customers in the North West had meant it did not need to introduce them at the moment.
But the firm warned there was still a possibility of restrictions if more rain did not arrive in the coming weeks.
Dr Martin Padley, water services director, said: “Given the improved position, helped by recent rainfall, we do not want to inconvenience customers unnecessarily at this time.
“However, the long-range forecast from the Met Office is one of relatively dry weather into the autumn, so future restrictions are still a possibility if more rain doesn’t arrive.”
Some tips for conserving water include spending a minute less in the shower, reusing bath water in the garden, only boiling what you need and using a washing up bowl.
Large parts of the UK have experienced heatwave conditions in the past few weeks with temperatures at the end of July rising above 35C (95F).
The mercury could climb back up to 31C in London and the South East this weekend the Met Office has said, with sunshine returning to most of the country.
But while London is set to sizzle again the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will enjoy temperatures in the mid-20s, with scatterings of rain.
Holidaymakers heading to Spain and Portugal were warned of an extreme heatwave which could see the hottest-ever temperatures recorded in continental Europe.
Luke Miall, a Met Office meteorologist, said the current record of 48C (118F) in Athens, Greece, in 1977 could be broken as wave of blisteringly hot air sweeps in from Africa.
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