Meanwhile, Teresa Barrett, who runs the Black Horse in Camden Road, said the pub had been without running water since midnight on Saturday.
She said: “Sadly, this means it is illegal for us to open. If I could, I would be opening.”
The landlady said losing a day of trading would be “extremely damaging”, adding: “I can’t afford to be closed, I can’t lose a day’s trading in the current climate.
“Things are hard enough for hospitality right now, businesses in this sector would have prepared for table bookings today and lost an extreme amount of money, [and] staff will still need to be paid.”
Peter Vincent, who lives in Grove Hill, said he noticed that the “cistern wasn’t refilling properly” on Sunday morning.
“We would get the flow and the pressure coming down the hill from the mains,” he told BBC Radio Kent.
“For us to be slow like that, it’s going to be pretty hard for some people somewhere in the town when they all start drawing their water off.”
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