Some families have been living this way for over a week. Emergency water stations have been set up across the north of the country to provide water for drinking and cooking, and doctors have warned of the potential of a disease outbreak.
“People with young families have not been able to flush toilets and wash themselves—never mind get access to drinking water. This really is now a public health emergency,” Peter Maguire, a Northern Irish medical doctor from the region told The Guardian.
While Northern Ireland scrambles to set up water stations, a modicum of help is also coming from Scotland: they plan to send 160,000 bottles of water across the channel, according to the BBC.
