Dozens of homes in a village were left without water after E.coli bacteria were found in a nearby reservoir.
The contamination of Stokenchurch reservoir in Oxfordshire caused disruption of supply to 68 properties in the village of Northend. The homes had to be supplied with bottled water by Thames Water, and residents had tankers parked outside their houses to ensure continued supply.
The firm said that E.coli - which can cause severe diarrhoea and vomiting - was found in two samples in one half of the Stokenchurch reservoir on Friday and Sunday last week as part of a routine water quality sampling process. It shut the affected half of the reservoir to the water mains and used another water plant in Chinnor to maintain local supplies.
