South West Water's incident manager has defended the firm's reaction to the incident.
The number of confirmed cases of diarrhoea and vomiting caused by contaminated water in Devon has risen to 100.was found in the water supply for the Brixham area more than two weeks ago.
"Bearing in mind we continuously monitor for crypto at our water treatment works so we had no indication that it was our network versus for example swimming pools or anywhere else.South West Water's David Harris speaks to ITV News West Country "Our teams continue to work around the clock to clean the network and to put interventions in place to prevent this from happening again. Our top priority is to return supply to the quality our customer expect and deserve, quickly and safely.”It means those in Hillhead, upper parts of Brixham and Kingswear will receive £315 in total. Those in the Alston water supply area, who are no longer under a boil notice, will receive £115.
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