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Inside 'third world' UK community where locals have to travel 6 miles for water

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People living in a tiny waterside community blighted by a long-running series of misfortunes feel they are living in a "third world" village.

The Plas Panteidal residential and holiday estate in Gwynedd, North Wales, was once a "thriving" and "absolutely lovely" place on the banks of the Dyfi estuary.

But now the water supply is contaminated with E coli and unfit for drinking, trees are in danger of falling onto homes, the electricity grid is close to collapse, the access road is marred with potholes and unfit for vehicles, and raw sewage once flowed down a hillside.

On top of all of this, the 35 permanent residents who refuse to leave have to make a six-mile round trip for water or find it by other means - one even collects it from his

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