- A large burst water main in West Molesey, Surrey, has left thousands of homes across south London and Surrey without water or with low pressure.
- Thames Water reported that up to 15,000 properties were initially affected, though the number of impacted homes subsequently fell to 6,000.
- Specialist teams are on site working to contain the flooding and carry out repairs, but Thames Water warned the fix will take some time.
- Monica Harding, MP for Esher and Walton, called for an urgent response from Thames Water to restore supplies and protect vulnerable residents.
- Harding raised concerns that decades of underinvestment in infrastructure and poor regulation may be responsible for the outage.
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