Average 263 ppm across 131 postcodes served.
Southern Water provides water and wastewater services to 2.6 million customers across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The chalk downs of southern England produce notably hard water.
Every postcode district, sorted by hardness.
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