Kent water failure was foreseen and could have been stopped, regulator says

Problem at water treatment centre left 24,000 Tunbridge Wells homes without drinking water for two weeks

A failure at a water treatment centre that left tens of thousands of Kent households without water was foreseen weeks before it happened and could have been stopped, the regulator has said.

Twenty-four thousand homes in the Tunbridge Wells area were without drinking water for two weeks from 30 November last year due to a failure at the Pembury water treatment centre.