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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Mark Townsend

‘People are worried it will happen again’: the English village whose water ran out

Hayley Leavy and her children and the stockpiles of bottled water
Resident Hayley Leavy with her children and the stockpiles of bottled water. Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer

John Ramsden surveyed the parched village green, its yellow grass withered in the midday sun, and wondered what lay ahead. “People are worried it’ll happen again.”

The “again” refers to life without a water supply. Ramsden’s village of Challock, perched in the uplands of the Kent downs, has already survived one bout without mains water this summer.

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