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Roughly 16,000 homes and businesses in Devon have been urged not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling and cooling it first.
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Roughly 16,000 homes and businesses in Devon have been urged not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling and cooling it first.
South West Water says some 16,000 homes and firms are affected but it is clearing the contamination.
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated at lakes across the UK on Saturday to raise concerns about the state of the UK's water.
South West Water said around 14,500 households in the Alston supply area can now use their tap water safely.
A Devon MP has branded a water company's response to a parasite being found in the water supply as "contemptible and just generally incompetent".