diff --git a/kube-runtime/src/utils/mod.rs b/kube-runtime/src/utils/mod.rs
index beae8a5b2..90d84524e 100644
--- a/kube-runtime/src/utils/mod.rs
+++ b/kube-runtime/src/utils/mod.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ pub use event_flatten::EventFlatten;
 pub use stream_backoff::StreamBackoff;
 pub use watch_ext::WatchStreamExt;
 
-use crate::watcher;
 use futures::{
     pin_mut,
     stream::{self, Peekable},
@@ -26,31 +25,6 @@ use std::{
 use stream::IntoStream;
 use tokio::{runtime::Handle, task::JoinHandle};
 
-/// Flattens each item in the list following the rules of [`watcher::Event::into_iter_applied`].
-#[deprecated(
-    since = "0.72.0",
-    note = "fn replaced with the WatchStreamExt::applied_objects which can be chained onto watcher. Add `use kube::runtime::WatchStreamExt;` and call `stream.applied_objects()` instead. This function will be removed in 0.75.0."
-)]
-pub fn try_flatten_applied<K, S: TryStream<Ok = watcher::Event<K>>>(
-    stream: S,
-) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<K, S::Error>> {
-    stream
-        .map_ok(|event| stream::iter(event.into_iter_applied().map(Ok)))
-        .try_flatten()
-}
-
-/// Flattens each item in the list following the rules of [`watcher::Event::into_iter_touched`].
-#[deprecated(
-    since = "0.72.0",
-    note = "fn replaced with the WatchStreamExt::touched_objects which can be chained onto watcher. Add `use kube::runtime::WatchStreamExt;` and call `stream.touched_objects()` instead. This function will be removed in 0.75.0."
-)]
-pub fn try_flatten_touched<K, S: TryStream<Ok = watcher::Event<K>>>(
-    stream: S,
-) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<K, S::Error>> {
-    stream
-        .map_ok(|event| stream::iter(event.into_iter_touched().map(Ok)))
-        .try_flatten()
-}
 
 /// Allows splitting a `Stream` into several streams that each emit a disjoint subset of the input stream's items,
 /// like a streaming variant of pattern matching.