Hundreds of homes in Kent and Sussex left without water after supply outages

UK homes left without water as UK bakes in 'historic' temperatures

South East Water's pumping station failure left ~790 Kent properties without water on the UK's hottest bank holiday on record, with temperatures reaching 30.5°C and a forecast of 35°C. Extreme heat events expose utility infrastructure single points of failure — a prompt to audit redundancy in cooling and power continuity plans for any operation with physical infrastructure dependencies.