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Advice issued amid discoloured water reports

Cameron Weldon
BBC News
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Jersey Water said it received calls from customers in Gorey reporting cloudy water coming out of their taps

A water provider in Jersey has issued guidance after reports of discoloured water.

Jersey Water said it received calls from customers reporting cloudy water in Gorey on Wednesday.

In a post on social media, the firm said it was looking into the issues and advised those who had brown or discoloured water to run kitchen taps for a "couple of minutes" until water ran clear.

Thanking residents for alerting it to the problem, the utility added that, if the issues persisted, to contact customer services and thanked residents for alerting them to the problem.

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