Company admits supplying water contaminated with ‘parasitic outbreak’ to customers with ‘140 left sick with diarrhoea’

A WATER company has admitted supplying water unfit for human consumption after a parasitic outbreak left hundreds of people unwell. South West Water Ltd pleaded guilty during a hearing at Exeter Magistrates' Court following a May 2024 contamination. A parasite known as cryptosporidium, that causes sickness and diarrhoea, found its way into the water supply...