http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2130203.ece

"300,000 without clean water as flood threat moves to Thames Valley"

"One third of a million people in the west of England will remain without clean running water for at least a week as a result of the worst floods to have struck the UK in the last 60 years.

Severn Trent Water said this morning that 350,000 customers would remain dependent on 3 million litres of bottled water delivered by the Army each day, and on a fleet of 900 mini-tankers parked in flood-stricken locations to dispense drinking water. "