{"id":945742,"date":"2026-05-08T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:15:24","slug":"south-east-water-boss-david-hinton-resigns-after-multiple-supply-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945742\/","title":{"rendered":"South East Water boss David Hinton resigns after multiple supply failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alistair Carmichael MP, who chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said the resignation was &#8220;obviously the right thing for him to have done&#8221; but added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that South East Water is yet off the watchlist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a company that as far as I can see hasn&#8217;t started yet the necessary process of turning things around,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The committee&#8217;s highly critical report, published on 1 May, accused the water company of poor leadership, weak governance and a culture where nobody was held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alistair Carmichael MP, who chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, said the resignation was &#8220;obviously the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-945742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116538201332438526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}