Water company wrongly told households they could stop boiling water after parasite outbreak
A water company wrongly told households they could stop boiling their water amid a parasite outbreak.
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A water company wrongly told households they could stop boiling their water amid a parasite outbreak.
A Devon MP has said that "those who are responsible" for the local water crisis are "held to account."
Around 16,000 households and businesses in the Brixham area of Devon have been told not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling and cooling it first.
Thousands of residents in Brixham, Devon, were hit by the cryptosporidium outbreak from their water supplies this week as South West Water said it had likely come from a pipe fault in a cattle field
South West Water identifies ‘damaged valve’ as possible cause of cryptosporidium contamination in Brixham area