A water tank infected with cryptosporidium has been drained and will be cleaned on Saturday, South West Water has said. About 16,000 households in the Brixham area of Devon have been told to boil their drinking water following 46 confirmed cases of the disease. Cryptosporidiosis is caused by a tiny parasite and can lead to vomiting, stomach cramps and watery diarrhoea lasting about two weeks.
Mr Mangnall said: 'From starting this week with a denial from South West Water that it was anything to do with them, delaying the fact that the boil water notice came in - meaning thousands of people used the water network - to then issuing it on Wednesday, and there are a lot of people who are very ill.' He called it an 'absolutely disastrous week' and said locals were furious.
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