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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Nimra Shahid and Damien Gayle

Hundreds in London flats left without regular running water since last year

The front of a block of flats
Limscott House in Tower Hamlets, where the water has been turned off without warning for hours each day. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Hundreds of residents in blocks of flats in east London have been left without regular running water for more than seven months after development in the area may have left it without an adequate supply.

Taps have been running dry in nine blocks in Tower Hamlets, where residents have been forced to use bottled water while their landlord, the housing association Poplar Harca, delayed works to solve the problem.

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