{"id":327072,"date":"2025-12-20T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327072\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:57:09","slug":"supply-too-reliant-on-one-asset-says-south-east-water-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327072\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply &#8216;too reliant&#8217; on one asset, says South East Water boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hinton was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwypkywv1gvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speaking to the BBC earlier in the week<\/a> and said the company wants to &#8220;do more&#8221; at a separate works at Bewl Water reservoir, near Wadhurst in East Sussex, and spend \u00a330m on expanding output capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposal would give the company the ability to &#8220;rapidly fill the area of Tunbridge Wells, for example, as soon as we see any issue&#8221;, said Mr Hinton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said this would allow &#8220;extra resilience should any other challenges hit any other treatment works&#8221; without further draining the reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not only for Tunbridge Wells, it&#8217;s for the wider parts of Kent as well,&#8221; added the chief executive, who has faced calls to resign over the supply issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Hinton was speaking to the BBC earlier in the week and said the company wants to &#8220;do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}