Water Companies

The company provides 900 million litres of water each day to a population of more than 3.5 million people in parts of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, the London Boroughs of Harrow and Hillingdon and parts of the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing and Enfield. The company also supplies water to the Tendring […]

In 2015, the company became part of the Pennon Group, owners of South West Water. The company’s aim is to deliver a world-class drinking water supply to our customers, providing excellent water quality and an efficient, long-term secure supply for the Bournemouth area to meet the challenges of global climate change and carbon reduction. .

The company utilises 68 water sources, including 14 raw water reservoirs. Water is distributed via a 6,000km of mains, 164 pumping stations and 139 storage reservoirs. Approximately half the water is taken from the Mendip Hills, particularly Chew Valley Lake, Blagdon Lake, Cheddar Reservoir and Barrow Gurney Reservoirs, with the other half is piped from […]

Boreholes drilled into the chalk strata south of Cambridge provide 97% of the water, while  3% comes from a greensand source to the west which feeds Gamlingay and the surrounding villages. Cambridge Water operates 23 water treatment works that process 73 million litres of water per day, supplying 300,000 people through 2,300km of water mains. […]

The company serves 735,000+ domestic connections and 47,000+ non-household connections in two separate supply areas. The Essex area is part rural and part urban and has a population of 1.5 million. The main areas of population are in Chelmsford, Southend and the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge. In the mainly rural […]

For the first time, the 35,100 homes and 3,900 businesses in Powys and Monmouthshire who were previously Severn Trent customers joined Dee Valley customers based in Wales to be served by HD. The 49,700 homes who were previously Dee Valley Water customers in England are now served by Severn Trent.

Raw water from 6 storage reservoirs is treated at one of two water treatment works located at Handois and Augres. Once treated, water is transferred to five treated water storage reservoirs located in St Helier, Trinity and St Lawrence. In addition, the company operates a RO desalination plant at La Rosière, which plays a vital […]

The company has 21 water sources comprising 1 group of springs, 1 river and 19 borehole sites, which supply 18 water treatment works. The company supplies over 300,000 properties from 18 service reservoirs via 3,266km of mains.

Treated water is supplied to approximately 655,000 consumers in 280,000 properties. Raw water is extracted from underground resources (85%) and from natural springs and river sources (15%). On average the company supplies 160 million litres of treated water per day, and this can rise to 260 million litres at times of high demand. The company […]

The company draws raw water from more than 250 boreholes, six rivers and six reservoirs, which is treated at one of 93 water treatment works. Once treated, water is distributed throughout the region via a network of more than 14,500 kilometres of mains.

Cities served include Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley, together with areas such as Tamworth, Uttoxeter, Burton, Lichfield, Sutton Coldfield and Cannock. The company supplies 330 million litres of water every day via a 6,000km network of pipes to approximately 500,000 homes and 36,000 business customers. In 2013 SSW acquired Cambridge Water.