Steve Andrews, incident manager at SEW, said: “We have listened to customer feedback regarding yesterday’s bottled water station at Sainsbury’s, Brooklands Way, and we have taken the decision not to open this today, with an alternative bottled water station opened at East Grinstead Sports Club. We apologise for the disruption caused to the local community.”
The other bottled water station in East Grinstead is at the Queensway car park.
In Kent, water stations are at Tunbridge Wells rugby club and Headcorn Aerodrome in Ashford.
The village of Stelling Minnis, near Canterbury, is also experiencing supply issues, while thousands in Tunbridge Wells who have been without water since Tuesday should see it return on Sunday, SEW said.
Mary Creagh, a minister for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said on Saturday the problems were “unacceptable”.
“I remain very concerned that people in several areas in the South East and South West are experiencing water supply issues following both cold weather and Storm Goretti,” she said.
“This is entirely unacceptable. This afternoon, I chaired a further meeting with the water companies and local resilience forums to restore supplies as quickly as possible, prioritising vulnerable customers and essential public services.”