About 1,500 homes and businesses in the Berwickshire area of the Scottish Borders remain without water for a fourth day.

Faults at a treatment works near Duns were identified by Scottish Water on Tuesday, with about 6,000 customers being affected.

Although most communities have been reconnected, parts of Duns and Coldstream – as well as the villages of Chirnside, Coldingham, Paxton and Burnmouth — remain without tap water.

Scottish Water said it was having to recharge the network slowly to prevent further issues – but hoped to have all households reconnected later on Friday.

Bottled water collection points have been set up in a dozen of towns and villages as work continues to restore supplies.

Problems were identified at the Rawburn Water Treatment Works on Tuesday and since then engineers have worked through the night to restore supply.

By Thursday, 4,200 properties in parts of Berwickshire had water restored with a further 1,800 expected to be restored by the early hours of Friday.

MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, John Adam said he had met Scottish Water officials and called the situation “unacceptable”.

He said on X: “There are still thousands of people without water and now vital services such as Coldstream Medical Centre have lost their supply.

“I’ve made it absolutely clear to Scottish Water that this is totally unacceptable. It is a disaster and they need to get it sorted out as soon as possible.”