A north London resident whose family is one of about 750 households that have spent three days without water due to a burst pipe has said they have had to resort to buying bottled water to flush their toilet.
Filomena Gianfrancesco, 56, said she and her family of six have been without water in Enfield since Sunday.
“I had never realised how difficult it was to be without water, and on day three today things are beginning to get quite hard,” she said. “No washing, no toilet, no washing up, no laundry.”
Thames Water said in an update on its website that repair work on the damaged pipe would begin on Tuesday evening and was expected to take “several days”.
The EN1, EN2, N14 and N21 postcode areas in the capital have been affected.
Thames Water said “exceptionally dry ground conditions” from drought conditions were increasing pressure on buried pipes.
“As the ground dries and shrinks, it moves and this can cause pipes to shift and burst,” the company said.