The Environment Agency (EA) has issued a permit allowing the firm to draw extra supplies from the River Wharfe while the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has granted it an order to top up stocks from the River Ouse.
It comes after reservoir levels across Yorkshire dropped to 42.2% capacity following an extremely dry year.
Yorkshire officially moved to drought status on 12 June following six months of below average rainfall combined with high temperatures, which affected most of the country. A hosepipe ban was introduced on 11 July, affecting more than five million people and prohibiting them from watering gardens, washing cars or filling paddling pools.
The drought order for the Ouse will allow the company to abstract an additional 60,000 cubic metres per day at Moor Monkton, near York.
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