Chessington World of Adventures Resort was forced to turn away families in the middle of the school summer holidays today as it shut due to a water outage.
Bosses at the theme park in Surrey warned people not to travel following a burst water main, which Thames Water has since located and is now working to repair.
It comes as car washes and swimming pools face a water ban as the record-breaking drought worsens with no rain in sight and a sixth heatwave of the year this week.
Some 27million people across England and Wales are already under a hosepipe ban as reservoir
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