Families left without running water for more than two months forced to shower in GARDEN

Families in Oldham have been left without running water for months – forcing one man to take showers in his GARDEN.

Residents living in Weeder Square, Shaw, say they are still waiting to be connected to a main supply 10 weeks after their water source dried up. The houses usually draw water from a nearby well.

The families have now gone more than two months without running water – leaving them no choice but to live off bottled water provided by United Utilities. Jean Mulhall, 88, says she has been prescribed anxiety medication over the ordeal following a decline in her mental health.

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"I'm nearly 89 - it's just hard. It's awful,” she told the Manchester Evening News. “I've been to the doctors and he's put me on some tablets to calm me down.

“It's terrible, my husband died in 2019 and it's so hard. During lockdown I was on my own all that time, the children came to see me but they're all on holiday at the moment.

"I'm going up to my daughters to have a shower. Otherwise, I have to take a bowl of water upstairs and put in the bath, or stand in a bowl of water and have a shower.”

Jean says she has to carry a full bucket of water upstairs every time she needs to use the toilet. "We got a first lot of water then within a week they sent another big lot out,” she continued.

"It's hard because you have to boil pans of bottled water to wash up and then pour some of the bottled water to cool it down. Then when it's washed up, you put it in a bucket and take it up and put it in the loo but it doesn't even flush properly.

“You're doing it loads of times. It's horrible - it's absolutely terrible."

Fellow resident Martin