Homes and businesses in Worcestershire face a second day of not being able to drink their tap water due to contamination fears.
Up to 2,000 properties have been affected after a small amount of floodwater got into a burst pipe in a field in Tenbury Wells on Friday night.
Severn Trent said residents must not use the water for drinking, cooking or cleaning teeth.
Free bottled water is being given out at two sites.
The pipe has been disinfected and fully repaired and test samples of the water are being carried out, Severn Trent said.
Once the results are known and the water is safe, the public will be immediately updated.
Sarah-Jane O’Kane, from the supplier, has apologised to people for the inconvenience and said the ban was a precautionary measure.
The postcode areas affected are WR15 8 and SY8 4AU.
Up to 90,000 litres of bottled water is ready to be distributed on Sunday and can be collected from the car parks of Tenbury Community Hospital and Tenbury Swimming Pool.

Home and business owners of up to 2,000 homes properties in Worcestershire are being warned not to drink their tap water over contamination fears.
Severn Trent said a small amount of floodwater got into a burst pipe in a field in Tenbury Wells on Friday.
The pipe is being disinfected and people have been told not to use the water for drinking, cooking or cleaning teeth for at least two days.
Free bottled water is being given out at two sites in the county.
Sarah-Jane O’Kane, from Severn Trent Water, apologised to residents and said they understood how "ridiculously difficult" it would be for people over the weekend.
The postcode areas affected are WR15 8 and SY8 4AU. Severn Trent said the ban was a precautionary measure.
Some customers are also having intermittent supply problems.
Free bottled water is available to collect from the car parks of Tenbury Community Hospital and Tenbury Swimming Pool.
Independent councillor Mark Willis, mayor of Tenbury Wells, praised Severn Trent for "getting the message out early" which was then shared throughout the town.

TOLEDO (13abc Action News) – The city of Toledo continues to field questions about the quality of the drinking water as consumers continue to buy bottled water based on what the city calls baseless rumors.
Kroger stores in the area today say they’ve received a shipment of 160 pallets of bottled water to restock empty shelves.
Other stores, like WalMart and Meijer, also report an influx of people rushing to buy bottled water.
But the city continues to insist the water is safe and toxic microcystin has not entered the water supply.
Ed Moore, the Director of the Department of Public Utilities, says consumers can check the water quality dashboard to get the up to the minute information.
"Since we launched the dashboard in 2015, it’s been accurate 100% of the time and the rumors have been 100% false," Moore says.

SOUTHEASTERN, NC (WWAY) — The state has directed Chemours to provide bottled water to eight more well owners near the company’s Fayetteville Works facility after new preliminary test results show GenX above the state health goal in residential drinking wells.
The number of residential well owners receiving bottled water from Chemours now stands at 19, because of GenX detections above the provisional state health goal of 140 parts per trillion.
DEQ is also testing residential wells; in addition to testing for GenX, the state agency is also testing for two other fluorinated compounds, PFOA and PFOS. The state agency is testing for the three fluorinated compounds because they all have established health goals.
It is the second information session state officials have hosted to answer peoples’ questions about private well testing near the facility.
On Tuesday, DEQ received preliminary results for the first seven wells the state agency tested. The state had test results that showed GenX above the health goal in two wells, including one well that had already been tested and identified through results from Chemours that DEQ reported earlier this month. Four residential wells had detections of GenX below the health goal, and one did not detect GenX.
Chemours’ latest preliminary test results show GenX was detected at levels below the provisional state health goal in two wells; it was not detected in three residential wells.

Raleigh, N.C. — State regulators told the chemical company under fire for releasing GenX into the Cape Fear River to supply more nearby residents with bottled water after tests showed elevated levels of the unregulated chemical in their water.
GenX is a detergent used to make Teflon and other products and is difficult to remove from drinking water sources.
The state instructed Chemours to supply water to users of 11 wells last week following initial test results. The additional eight wells announced Wednesday afternoon came after the state received new results from wells tested by both regulators and the company.
DEQ spokesman Jamie Kritzer said state regulators will continue to sample additional wells in the area and will also consider testing upon request.
The environmental agency, along with the state Department of Health and Human Services, will hold a community information session on the testing from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Gray’s Creek Elementary School gym, at 2964 School Road in Hope Mills.
Meanwhile, state lawmakers will take up the issue of GenX and other so-called emerging contaminants in the Cape Fear River at a House committee meeting Thursday morning in downtown Raleigh.
Roy Cooper vetoed a measure from the Republican legislature to provide a fraction of the funding the governor requested to address the contaminants. Cooper said the bill would have weakened environmental protections and criticized lawmakers for failing to help undo years of cuts to DEQ and its regional regulators across the state. Republican leaders, who have said the governor has not moved quickly enough to address GenX, have vowed to override Cooper’s veto.

STROUD TOWNSHIP — Firefighters typically need water for two things: to put out fires and to drink to stay hydrated.
One of those sources is running dry at Stroud Township Volunteer Fire Department near Stroudsburg.
It was low,” said Chief William Unruh, Stroud Township Volunteer Fire Department.
Fire Chief William Unruh says his crew goes through water faster than the department can keep up with.
The volunteer fire department always relied on bottled water donations.
“Yeah, this little Indian summer here, we’ve been busy.
“They should 100 percent get donations. The fire department looks after us when we are sleeping, out of town, they look after us and we should definitely give them all the donations they need,” said Gabryal Rabinowitz, Henryville.
Here on North 5th Street or our Arlington Station which is by the Stroud Mall,” said Chief Unruh.
If you’re interested in donating bottled water to the Stroud Township Volunteer Fire Department, you can do so at the North 5th Street location or at the Arlington Station.

ALPHARETTA, GA — The Alpharetta High School community is coming together to help their fellow citizens in Puerto Rico recovering from the devastation unleashed by two hurricanes this month.
The school’s Student Council and Spanish Club are collecting cases of bottled water to send to the Caribbean island. Residents can drop off items from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Friday, Sept. 29 at the school’s carpool lane.
Volunteers will be on hand to receive donations (SIGN UP: Get Patch’s Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app).
If you are not able to make it to the school, you are also encouraged to drop off donations of bottled water at Nothing Bundt Cakes at 5230 Windward Parkway Suite 102 in Alpharetta from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you prefer to show your support with your wallet, you can also visit United For Puerto Rico to make a monetary contribution.
Alpharetta High School is located at 3595 Webb Bridge Road.
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Gas for cars and generators is hard to find.
Communities across Puerto Rico have lost running water as a result of the widespread power outages from Hurricane Maria, and it’s not clear when it will be restored.
Many people are living off stockpiles, like Martha Viera and her daughter Veronica Vargas. They rode out the hurricane in their house on the top of a mountain ridge, near Aibonito in central Puerto Rico.
But Alberio says he needs water "for everything … to drink, to bathe, to wash up, to clean the house" so he traveled half an hour to this spring.
"There’s no water anywhere else," she says.
And other people in line here say they plan to use this water only for cleaning, not for drinking.
In Coamo, a small town in southern Puerto Rico that was hit hard by the storm, people lined up to take water from a municipal tank where it’s been sitting stagnant for days.
Other people hop in to bathe.
I lost everything in my house," he says.

Is bottled water the best drink?
Apart from transportation, infrastructure and salaries, “Nestlé pays little for the product it bottles — sometimes a municipal rate and other times just a nominal extraction fee,” the Bloomberg report said.
“This includes the scientists, engineers, biologists and others who work for our company,” it said.
Americans now drink more bottled water than every other soda combined, in an effort to avoid sugar and diet soda.
Bottled-water consumption in the US hit 39.3 gallons per capita last year, while carbonated soft drinks fell to 38.5 gallons, marking the first time that soda was knocked off the top spot, according to recent data from industry tracker Beverage Marketing Corp.
In the four decades since the launch of Perrier water in the US, consumption of bottled water surged 2,700 percent, from 354 million gallons in 1976 to 11.7 billion gallons in 2015, according to the International Bottled Water Association.
(Representatives from the bottled water industry contend that the origin of these EDCs were likely environmental rather than from a packaging material.)
What’s more, polyethylene terephthalate or PET, plastic bottled water bottles already use less plastic than any other packaged beverage, the International Bottled Water Association spokeswoman added.
“When a public water system is used as a source for making purified bottled water, several processes are employed to ensure that it meets comprehensive US Food and Drug Administration regulations,” she says.
The American Beverage Association also rejects those studies, highlighting the difference between “correlation” and “causation,” and says people who are overweight and already at risk for heart disease may consume more diet drinks in an attempt to control their weight and the Food and Drug Administration has ruled that artificial sweeteners are safe.

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They were the people from Chemours, who were at his home to take samples from his kitchen faucet.
"My mind took off," Abril said, "just wondering what is going on here. The health issues, how long has it been this way?
Although the state Department of Environmental Quality says the test results "have not been validated," they originally told the company to supply the water Friday "out of an abundance of caution," according to a news release.
"You don’t realize how much water you use until something like this comes up," Abril said.