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Water is yet being restored to immoderate homes crossed Kent and Sussex - aft astir a week of chaos.
Some 6,500 homes volition person their taps moving again aft a gruelling six days of disruption - which has prompted fury towards supplier South East Water (SEW).
The steadfast blames the outage - which has affected 30,000 homes since Saturday - connected Storm Goretti bursting pipes and cutting power.
It has prompted a probe by h2o regulator Ofwat - with hundreds inactive experiencing debased h2o pressure.
The beleaguered h2o steadfast has faced dense disapproval from MPs and the nationalist arsenic the outage came disconnected the backmost of a similar incidental past month, when 24,000 homes were affected.
A large incidental was declared by SEW and Kent County Council connected Monday, but not by either East oregon West Sussex County Councils.
Sky News spoke to aged residents successful a attraction location successful Tunbridge Wells, who said they were losing their 'cool'.
On Friday, SEW's incidental manager Mathew Dean said: "Water supplies person present been restored to the 6,500 properties successful Tunbridge Wells area.
"Some customers whitethorn beryllium experiencing debased unit arsenic the h2o levels proceed to physique this greeting passim the area's pipeline network.
"Continuous supplies person been restored to the municipality aft we implemented our betterment program which progressive keeping section booster pumps switched disconnected for 36 hours truthful our drinking h2o retention vessel could fill.
"We are precise atrocious to each azygous 1 of our customers who person been affected.
"We cognize and recognize however hard going without h2o for specified a agelong play of clip is and however hard it makes mundane life." sfgdg
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Earlier this week Sky News spoke to aged residents who were affected.
One said: "I cant judge we're present present and we haven't got immoderate water.
"I cannot retrieve thing being similar this - successful the warfare we didn't person this.
"You're ne'er cleanable - everything you interaction is dirty. It's awful."
Residents archer entity astir their frustrations astatine a bottled h2o site.
Ofwat's probe volition look into whether the supplier had breached its licence information by failing to comply with lawsuit work standards obligations and offering due enactment to affected customers.
If the regulator decides SEW has breached the conditions it could beryllium stripped of its licence.
South East Water Limited reported an summation successful pre-tax nett to £18.2 cardinal for the six months up to 30 September 2025, up from £2.6 cardinal successful the aforesaid play past year.
In the colony of Bidborough, Kent, determination are inactive are 320 homes inactive affected by debased h2o levels.
Bottled h2o sites volition inactive stay unfastened contiguous "as a precaution", the institution has said.
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