Scores of residents in some parts of Stockport have been left without water since 6pm on Friday night
Hundreds of residents in Stockport have travelled to bottled water stations across the borough after a power cut left parts of the town without water.
One site on Offerton Road had worked it's way through one and a half articulated lorries full of water bottles by Saturday afternoon, with workers describing the stations as "manic." "We've been keeping up to date online but apart from a tiny bit this afternoon we've had no water since last night. We haven't been able to wash this morning and we've got a party tonight.
At the site on Offerton Road, many residents were stopping off a the drive-thru water station for the second time in one day. It's understood the sites will remain open until around 10pm tonight and will reopen at 8am tomorrow morning if the area is still without water. United Utilities said water was being delivered to care homes and vulnerable customers registered with them. However, there were complaints about people having not received any, about the locations of the current bottled water collection points and of local shops running out as a result.
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