{"id":610319,"date":"2026-05-29T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610319\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:55:15","slug":"kent-business-owners-say-water-disruption-is-hurting-their-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610319\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent business owners say water disruption is hurting their trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Parts of Whitstable saw supplies returning last night,&#8221; Benton added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benton confirmed on Friday that about 3,500 customers in the Whitstable area were without supply, but water was expected to return later that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tap water is likely to remain intermittent across the weekend for all customers in this area,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benton said SEW had given out 283,884 water bottles at bottled water stations across Kent and will &#8220;continue to identify new locations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that about 200 customers in Cranbrook were currently without supply because the drinking water storage tanks serving these areas had &#8220;reached a critical level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In addition, there are currently around 8,700 customers experiencing low pressure or an intermittent supply in Ulcombe, Coxheath, Loose, Headcorn and Herne Bay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This also includes the three villages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj0ppnny723o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charing, Challock and Molash<\/a>, which had first experienced problems last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has continued to urge customers to use water for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cewpqkx812eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">essential purposes only<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Parts of Whitstable saw supplies returning last night,&#8221; Benton added. Benton confirmed on Friday that about 3,500 customers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-610319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610319","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=610319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}