Brown Is Quizzed Over the Water Crisis As He Flies Into the Flood Zone

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Shortages of clean water have raised fears over public health and led to frayed tempers in the areas caught in the grip of the flooding crisis.

More than 340,000 people in Gloucestershire have been warned they will not have a water supply in their homes for up to two weeks and are relying on mobile tankers, or bowsers, and bottled water.

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Brown Is Quizzed Over the Water Crisis As He Flies Into the Flood Zone

But there were concerns yesterday the bowsers could not be filled quickly enough to meet demand.

Meanwhile Gordon Brown made his second visit to the county in a week to praise emergency workers who battled to save a vital electricity station.

He managed to stay on dry land as he saw the devastation firsthand, touring the electricity substation at Walham where hundreds of emergency wo...

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