Bosses say they “believe water has returned to all of the 24,000 affected properties” cut off following a problem at a South East Water treatment plant.

It comes more than a week after homes, businesses, and schools in Tunbridge Wells were left without supplies due to issues with the chemicals used at the company’s plant in Pembury last weekend.

A boil order - requiring all customers to boil water from their taps before drinking or cooking with it - remains in place.

The water company says the “precautionary boil notice” is in place due to “potential fault in the final disinfection process,” but that their water “is chemically safe”.

In an update this morning, a spokesperson for the utility company said: “We are very sorry to customers who continue to be affected by no water or low

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