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Seven thousand homes in Kent are without water or facing low pressure after a technical glitch at a Tunbridge Wells treatment plant shut down operations yesterday — and while the system is back online, storage tanks are dangerously low, leaving higher ground residents especially vulnerable. South East Water estimates full recovery won’t happen until Sunday evening as they refill tanks to restore pressure. To help, they’ve set up water bottle stations at a Tesco and a rugby club. This isn’t their first rodeo — just this week, they were slapped with a £30 million penalty for past supply failures affecting hundreds of thousands across Kent and Sussex. Financial woes continue, with the company warning it needs new funding after losing £55 million in winter outages — it has enough cash to last until July 2027, but is already negotiating with banks for a new loan. While fixing the immediate crisis, the company grapples with a looming financial future.

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