Thousands of Kent residents still dealing with water supply issues

Officials distributed bottled water in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, as thousands of properties across South East England were affected by water outages. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Thousands of residents across Kent are still dealing with water supply issues after yet more outages from the under-fire operator, South East Water.

The water supply of more than 5,500 households was affected on Sunday evening due to a treatment works fault, a power outage and two burst mains.