THE government faced calls to remove South East Water’s licence today after its bosses admitted a string of failures when 30,000 people were left without water last winter.Tunbridge Wells suffered a sustained outage in November and December before thousands of properties across Kent and Sussex saw their supply disrupted in January.Many people were left without drinking water for days, unable to shower or bathe and could not flush their toilets, while a number of schools were forced to close.

THE government faced calls to remove South East Water’s licence today after its bosses admitted a string of failures when 30,000 people were left without water last winter.

Tunbridge Wells suffered a sustained outage in November and December before thousands of properties across Kent and Sussex saw their supply disrupted in January.

Many people were left without drinking water for days, unable to shower or bathe and could not flush their toilets, while a number of schools were forced to close.

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