Nearly 60,000 houses throughout Hampshire are with out water due to a “technical issue” at a Southern Water provide works, the corporate has stated.
Properties in Southampton, Romsey, Eastleigh, Totton, and components of the New Forest have been affected by issues on the Testwood water provide works stopping water from leaving the positioning.
Southern Water apologised and stated it was working exhausting to revive provides, however warned the problem may proceed till the weekend.
Lengthy queues have been reported at bottle stations which have been arrange on the Locations Leisure Centre in Eastleigh, Sainsbury’s superstore in Southampton and Asda superstore in Totton.
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Bottled water distribution in Southampton. Pic Southern Water
Southern Water stated they’re persevering with to ship water provides to prospects registered on their precedence checklist and estimate that round 58,000 houses have been affected.
It stated they’ve provided devoted tankers to Southampton Normal Hospital and Princess Anne Hospital. A number of colleges within the space say they’re unlikely to open right this moment.
In an announcement on its web site, Southampton Normal stated: “We are working with Southern Water on contingency arrangements to ensure our hospitals continue to maintain water supplies.”
It added: “We ask patients to continue to attend appointments as planned but to allow extra time for their journey and in accessing parking facilities, due to the access requirements being put in place to enable delivery of those supplies.”
Southern Water has stated it hopes provide will likely be restored all through Thursday, however stated the problem might not be absolutely resolved till the weekend.
“We are working towards all customers being back in supply by the weekend,” it stated.
The outage comes as shoppers in England and Wales put together to listen to right this moment how a lot water payments will rise.
Southern Water desires the regulator Ofwat to permit it to extend payments by a whopping 84%, whereas struggling Thames Water has requested for a 53% rise.
Ofwat is predicted to announce that costs will improve by greater than 20% by 2030, which suggests a mean rise of £20 a 12 months per family and the common invoice rising from £448 a 12 months to £542.
Ofwat’s draft selections launched in July allowed water corporations to extend payments by a mean of 21%, earlier than inflation is added, over the subsequent 5 years to assist fund £88 billion of funding in enhancing companies and the surroundings.
The proposed invoice rises would start to take impact from April subsequent 12 months.
