Monday, 6 November 2006

Water, water everywhere - and not a drop to drink

Two sets of people are without mains water this morning in northern Scotland. 37,000 homes around Inverness have no water due to a pumps failure late on Sunday. The communities involved are 

Inverness
Culloden
Smithton
Balloch
Nairn
Aldearn
North Kessock

34 schools in the districts mentioned were urged not to open, and bowsers would be deployed in the area to supply the most essential. As more than 200 of those would be required for Inverness alone (a city of more than 100,000 people), additional vehicles were being drafted in from the central belt. The top priority was to keep Raigmore Hospital, the largest hospital in the Highlands, supplied with water.

On top of that, the West Side of Lewis was also reported to be without water this morning. Engineers were reported to be heading to the area early this morning. The West Side, stretching from Carloway in the west to Borve in the northeast, has a few thousand inhabitants.

3 comments:

  1. Hope those with water will soon get it restored. Helen

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  2. I can't imagine working in the hospital without access to water!
    Pam

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  3. wow! how do they go about getting this straightened out Guido?
    natalie

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