Environment agency Sepa said every part of the country had now reached some level of water scarcity.
The warnings have come amid a heatwave, with hot, dry weather being experienced widely across Scotland.Sepa said the weather conditions could last until early July and followed a drier than usual winter and spring. In May, Scotland only received 44% of its long-term average rainfall.
"Their grazing is poor and not as it should be, with brown patches where the ground is shallow because stones underneath." Sepa said it seen many examples of good practice and innovation, but added the severity of the situation meant it had to consider suspending abstraction licences in the coming week in the worst affected areas, including Dumfriesshire and other parts of the south-west.
Sepa's head of water and planning, Nathan Critchlow-Watton, said: "Scotland's climate is changing, and we urgently need to adapt.
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