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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Bonnie Christian

Thousands of homes and businesses across south west and south London lose water supply

Thousands of homes and businesses were hit by a major water and power outage across south London.

A notice on the Thames Water website said customers had let them know about no water or low water pressure across south west and west London postcodes.

A spokesman told the Standard water was off for around 30 minutes on Thursday morning but the issue has now been resolved.

They added that they were investigating the cause of the issue.

Hammersmith and Fulham council tweeted around 10.15am it was aware of a “major fault” affecting residents.

“We’re aware many residents are suffering from a powercut and/or low water pressure in Fulham.

“@UKPowerNetworks are investigating a major fault and hope to have restored power to all homes by 9am-10am.”

A UK Power spokesman told the Standard: "Our engineers are currently working to restore power supplies to 110 customers in the SW6 area, after a fault developed on the electricity network. The incident started at 7.41am and has affected various numbers of properties at different times."

Many tweeted their concerns of not having water amid the coronavirus outbreak.

One NHS worker said: “Currently no electricity in #sw6 which also means no water as it gets to us via an electric pump. I need to shower after I come from working on the #nhs frontline! In turn we need more PPE at work!”

One west London resident said: “Thames Water phone lines are hopeless but the recorded message says half a dozen postcodes in London have no water, like mine. Advise on keep washing pretty useless now.”

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