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Evening Standard
Ben Mitchell

Water outage hits thousands of homes as customers learn of bill rises

A resident collects water at a bottle station at Asda in Totton (Ben Mitchell/PA) - (PA Wire)

Residents have been queuing for up to two hours to get bottled water as thousands of homes in Hampshire are still without supplies following a “technical issue”.

The disruption comes as households served by Southern Water discovered their bills would see the highest increase in the country.

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