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| Water firm United Utilities has been fined £300,000 for providing water unfit for human consumption in Lancashire in the summer of 2015. | Water firm United Utilities has been fined £300,000 for providing water unfit for human consumption in Lancashire in the summer of 2015. |
| The UK's largest listed water company will also have to pay £150,000 costs for the prosecution. | The UK's largest listed water company will also have to pay £150,000 costs for the prosecution. |
| A court heard that animal waste seeped into an underground tank, contaminating drinking water supplies with the cryptosporidium parasite, which can cause diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. | |
| Up to 700,000 people could not drink tap water in their homes for three weeks after the bug was found at the Franklaw water treatment works in Preston. | |
| The incident prompted supermarkets in the area to limit the amount of bottled water per customer, following panic buying. | |
| United pleaded guilty to supplying water unfit for human consumption in July. | |
| A United Utilities spokesman said at the time: "We have taken a full and open role with the DWI during its investigation and complied with all its requests for information. | |
| "A full programme of remedial and repair work has already been implemented to safeguard future supplies." |