22 Jan 2026
The water industry regulator, Ofwat, has formally launched an investigation into South East Water after thousands of households across Kent and Sussex were left without supply for the second time in two months. The probe will examine whether the company failed in its legal duty to provide high standards of customer service and adequate support […]
08 Jan 2026
Image description: Water streaming out of a silver tap. Image by Imani on Unsplash. The Chief Executive of South East Water (SEW), David Hinton, appeared before Parliament’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee in Westminster to face questioning over the utility’s handling of the Tunbridge Wells water outage, which left thousands of homes […]
20 Jun 2019
This series of Tweets and links from John Curtin and later Defra highlights the challenges of this weather system that got stuck over the UK. Like 2007 flooding this event this prolonged period of rain will go down as yet another event which shook up our perceptions of flood risk and how we respond. The […]
13 Jun 2019
The prolonged spell of intense wet weather is causing all sorts of problems. The Environment Agency said some areas of Kent recorded about 100mm of rain in the 24 hours up to 07:00 BST. The average rainfall for the entire month of June in the UK is 73.4mm, it added. … Exmoor is likely to see up to 40mm of rain on Tuesday but could have up […]