{"id":742470,"date":"2026-08-19T02:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742470\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:08:15","slug":"hundreds-of-enfield-homes-without-water-due-to-burst-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742470\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Enfield homes without water due to burst pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Filomena Gianfrancesco, 56, said she and her family of six have been without water in Enfield since Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had never realised how difficult it was to be without water, and on day three today things are beginning to get quite hard,&#8221; she said. &#8220;No washing, no toilet, no washing up, no laundry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 &#8220;several days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EN1, EN2, N14 and N21 postcode areas in the capital have been affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Water said &#8220;exceptionally dry ground conditions&#8221; from drought conditions were increasing pressure on buried pipes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As the ground dries and shrinks, it moves and this can cause pipes to shift and burst,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A north London resident whose family is one of about 750 households that have spent three days without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}