{"id":827781,"date":"2026-07-26T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827781\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:59:12","slug":"water-outage-at-londons-gatwick-airport-leaves-toilets-out-of-order-and-restaurants-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827781\/","title":{"rendered":"Water outage at London\u2019s Gatwick airport leaves toilets out of order and restaurants closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON \u2014 Water supplies to London\u2019s Gatwick Airport<\/a> were disrupted on Sunday \u200bafter a power outage at a \u200clocal treatment works, authorities at the airport said.<\/p>\n

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The issue had \u200bresulted in flushing toilets not \u200bworking and the closure of restaurants \u2060and bars, passengers said on social \u200bmedia.<\/p>\n

The airport, Britain\u2019s busiest after Heathrow, said \u200bwater supplies in both of its terminals had been affected. \u201cBottled water is being made available \u200bto passengers and staff across the \u200bairport and other contingency measures are being put in \u200cplace \u2060to ensure the welfare of our passengers,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

Water utility SES Water said complications caused by a power \u200boutage at \u200bBough \u2060Beech Water Treatment Works meant some customers were experiencing low \u200bwater pressure or a temporary \u200bloss \u2060of supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cGatwick Airport is being affected but we are working with them while \u2060our \u200bteams work to restore \u200bnormal service as quickly as possible,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

Paul Lee, a passenger at the airport, said he had not heard a word about the shut-off or seen water bottles being distributed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor people who need to go to the toilet, this isn\u2019t good,\u201d he told the BBC. \u201cI\u2019m taking off soon, so that\u2019s fine, but for passengers in a few hours, this will be bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Dugher, a former member of Parliament, said on social media that with bars and restaurants closed, passengers were sitting on the floor because of a seating shortage. He urged the airport to open those spaces to create more seating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Water supplies to London\u2019s Gatwick Airport were disrupted on Sunday \u200bafter a power outage at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-827781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}