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A new report has said Thames Water is in worse financial straits than already thought Thames Water: Fears of more bill hikes as £38bn bill revealed Skip to main content
The crisis engulfing Thames Water, which serves 15 million customers in London and the south-east, comes amid renewed focus on the industry which over the last year has been condemned for sewage ...
It owns more than 20,000 miles of water mains and more than 68,000 miles of sewers across London, the Thames Valley and the Home Counties, with approximately 8,000 employees.
Chris Weston’s comments come ahead of a crunch Ofwat decision next week on whether Thames Water can increase consumer bills by 59%.
In March 2003 Thames Water identified that by 2005 there would be a deficit in water treatment and supply capacity in North London. To address this deficit a new water treatment facility was constructed on 1.5 ha site adjacent to the William Girling reservoir and the A110 road ( 51°38′11″N 0°00′57″W / 51.63629°N 0.01582°W ...
Thames Water saw a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half as its debts continued to spiral. The company reported 359 so-called category one to three pollution incidents in the six ...
Wraysbury Reservoir is a water supply reservoir for London, just west of the M25 near the village of Wraysbury, and directly under the western approach path of Heathrow Airport. Construction of the reservoir was begun in 1967 and completed by W. & C. French in 1970 [ 2 ] with a capacity of 34,000 million litres (8,000 million gallons).
In 2009, Coppermills was connected to the Thames Water Ring Main via the Northern Extension Tunnel, enabling the facility to be a major supplier of water to the whole London area. [2] It is capable of supplying a maximum of 680 million litres (150,000,000 imp gal; 180,000,000 US gal) of water per day.