SOUTH-EAST Water has issued a plea to customers to help rebuild water reserves following high demand over the weekend.
The company is asking customers to only use water for drinking, cooking and hygiene purposes, just for the next few days, to allow them to refill the network quicker.
It said: “Due to temperatures soaring across our region in recent days and the prolonged dry weather we’ve experienced for the last six weeks we’re having to pump much more drinking water to customer taps than normal.
This, coupled with not seeing any significant rainfall since the end of April has put considerable pressure on our ability treat, pump and supply water to our all customers.
Demand has been rising over the last few weeks, but over the weekend we treated and pumped enough water to supply an additional four towns the size of Maidstone or Eastbourne.
This has impacted on the amount of treated water we have in our drinking water storage tanks across the regions.”
