south east water

A water boss has turned down his bonus after serious outages in Kent and Sussex left thousands of homes without drinking water. David Hinton, chief executive of South East Water, said he would refuse his 2025/26 bonus after admitting to "unacceptable outages" in Kent and Sussex earlier this year. The move came after supply failures in January left thousands of homes across Kent and Sussex without drinking water . In January, South East Water said Storm Goretti and burst mains during freeze-thaw conditions had exhausted drinking water storage in the East Grinstead area. The outages also prompte