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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alexander Butler

Cancer survivor with ileostomy bag left without running water in Surrey

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A woman who recently recovered from bowel cancer was forced to change her ileostomy bag “several times” a day after thousands of people were left without water when a major incident was declared following Storm Ciarán over the weekend.

Up to 12,000 residents in Guildford and Godalming, Surrey, were left without clean water and “no updates” after the storm caused problems at a Thames Water treatment plant.

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