Devon residents told to boil tap water over risk of parasitic disease

Brixham in Devon, where bottled water stations are being set up. Photograph: GordonBellPhotography/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Boil your tap water before you drink it, residents in Devon have been told, after 22 cases of a parasitic disease were confirmed.

South West Water has detected what it calls “small traces” of a parasite that can cause a diarrhoea-type disease in the drinking supply around the town of Brixham.