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Topic starter 14/01/2026 3:23 pm  

We’ve got family in the South East (East Sussex and Kent) and it’s now been a full week without water for them. I know a lot of members here are also based in the South East, so I wanted to ask: have any of you been affected by this as well?

I find it genuinely staggering that something like this can be allowed to drag on for so long in the UK. We like to present ourselves as a modern, resilient, first-world country, yet people are left without a basic utility for days on end, with little clarity and seemingly no urgency. We've been without water for day (on more than one occasion and never longer than that) and it's tricky when it comes to toilet use after a few hours, let along days, let alone a week. 

It also raises some questions about infrastructure resilience, contingency planning and how prepared we really are for failures whether that’s water, power or gas. For those of us already thinking about energy security, grid reliance and self-sufficiency, this feels like another warning sign. 

Would be interested to hear what the situation is like where you are, and how it’s being handled on the ground. I've seen countless stories of thousands of water bottles being dispensed to help, but can't help to think about the amount of plastic that has entered that equation as a result.


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14/01/2026 3:33 pm  

We think alike @editor ! All those bottles (and I expect that the water authorities are buying back water they supplied to the companies who bottle the water at a substantial increase in price too! We are fine here in Berkshire but, like you feel that though we have reserve energy supplies for emergency coverage, this is not the case with mains potable water. In fact, the situation is more fragile now as we have non-vented tankery that replaced that vented storage ‘reserve’ for when the water authorities pumps falter. Ho-Hum, one step forward, two steps back… Toodles.


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