John Lewis has sent five months' worth of bottled to hundreds of villagers because the area's drinking supply is being polluted by the retailer's estate.
Some 500 people in the diminutive village of Longstock, near Andover, have been drinking their water out of bottles supplied by the nearby Leckford Estate - which is part of the John Lewis Partnership - for the last four months.
Test Valley Borough Council (TVBC) advised the estate, which has funneled water to the village since 1929, to supply locals with the bottles after high levels of nitrate were discovered in its supply this April.
Representatives from the retailer's sprawling 2,800 acre farmland, which is nestled in the Hampshire countryside, have since installed a working filtration system in a move to combat the issue.
But they are set to provide Longstock's villagers with more bottles for some time yet while the systems are deployed at other boreholes across the region - which could take up to a month.
