Thousands of homes affected by burst water main
BBCThousands of homes have either no water or disrupted pressure due to a large burst water main.
Bristol Water said the burst main on Tenniscourt Road was affecting supplies in Kingswood, Warmley, Cadbury Heath, Longwell Green and Oldland.
A total of 9,291 properties were initially affected. By 14:30 GMT supplies had been rerouted and Bristol Water said 2,521 were still facing disruption.
Two water stations are open until 22:00 for people to collect water - at the Sainsbury's supermarket on Emersons Way in Emersons Green and at the Longwell Green Asda on Craven Way.
"We're making good progress with our repair in Kingswood and we have delivered bottled water to the most vulnerable customers on our priority services register as we continue with deliveries to other vulnerable customers," a Bristol Water spokesperson said.
"We're sorry for the disruption and will continue to keep customers updated," the company added.
The seven schools which were closed due to the incident were:
- Sir Bernard Lovell Academy in Oldland Common
- Digitech Academy in Bristol
- King's Oak Academy in Kingswood
- King's Forest Primary School in Bristol
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School in Kingswood
- Cadbury Heath School
- Barr's Court Primary School in Longwell Green
Katherine Ogden, principal of King's Oak Academy in Kingswood, said she had no choice but to close the school.
"In these scenarios, we have to make sure that there is water available on site for things like catering and normal school functions, so when we don't have any water facilities that's really quite challenging," she said.
One resident from Warmley said they noticed there was no water when they woke up at about 04:00 to feed their baby.
"We went to Asda for opening at 06:00 to make sure we had enough water for bottles for the day and there were already queues of people with trolleys full.
"Apparently they'd sold out of water by 08:30," they said.
Carol Nesbitt, from Warmley, said she was heading to her brother's house in Kingswood to deliver some bottled water.
She said it had been hard to find some in stock as Sainsbury's and Iceland had sold out early in the morning.
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