Key organisations urged to attend water crisis public meeting on Wednesday. The Tunbridge Wells based community group formed to campaign for a resilient water supply, Dry Wells Action, has urged South East Water and regulators to attend a public meeting in the town. The group has arranged a public meeting for 7.30pm on Wednesday evening to discuss why the community has experienced repeated, lengthy water outages; why regulators and government have not taken enforcement action

Fresh from the plague of no water for the best part of a week and problematic supplies since early November, Tunbridge Wells faces a new plague caused by South East Water: it is drowning in plastic. With over 6,000 homes suffering total water loss this past week, residents had to rely on bottled water for basic needs, including eating, washing, flushing toilets, feeding pets, washing up, and cleaning their homes. Flushing a toilet required 5-6 litres (approximately three bott

The latest news today (Monday 12th January 2026) is not only that the South East Water crisis has spread beyond Tunbridge Wells to Headcorn, Maidstone and East Grinstead, but also that the Water bottle distribution centre at TW Rugby Club is not open. Having started their crisis response by sending water to the wrong town (Tonbridge rather than Tunbridge Wells) and having allowed this situation to continue into the new year, South East Water need to address this as a matter