In January, up to 30,000 homes across Kent and Sussex lost water supply or had low stress after Storm Goretti, energy cuts and freeze-thaw bursts.
South East Water prospects additionally confronted disruption in November and December when about 24,000 households misplaced supply following a plant failure, which was adopted by a boil-water notice lasting several days.
Hinton mentioned that the corporate had devoted appreciable time and assets up to now three months to implementing its resilience plan.
The upgrades will ship further capability and water high quality safety for greater than 24,000 households in Tunbridge Wells and the encompassing areas, he mentioned.
He added that the work would strengthen the corporate’s wider community resilience.
Progress listed up to now contains new filters put in at Pembury Water Treatment Works and Tonbridge Water Treatment Works and engineering work to a pipeline between Bewl Water and Wadhurst.
A programme has additionally been launched to extend and optimise the situation of spare gear to scale back supply interruption and result in faster repairs.
South East Water serves about 2.3m individuals throughout Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
