United Utilities

It may still need to introduce it at a later stage if dry weather continues

It has warned of a ‘severe water shortage’ due to the lack of rainfall

It will enable the continuous monitoring and management of electricity demand and generation across United Utilities’ sites

It aims to eliminate the use of diesel and support ‘home-produced energy’ instead

A water supplier has been ordered to pay £6,500, including costs, for breaching highway safety precautions in Cheshire. United Utilities Water pleaded guility for failing to ensure its works were adequately safeguarded, causing pedestrians to use a busy highway with passing traffic, to manoeuvre around the works. A street works inspector from Cheshire East Council […]

United Utilities has been ordered to pay £666,000 for polluting a river with untreated sewage effluent in Greater Manchester. The Environment Agency took the prosecution against the water company after sewage polluted the River Medlock, which had a significant impact on fish population and water quality over four kilometres. A member of the public initially […]

United Utilities has pleaded guilty to supplying water that was unfit for human consumption to hundreds of thousands of customers. Around 700,000 people had to boil their water before drinking for nearly three weeks between 30th July 2015 and 18th August 2015. Cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite, was found during routine tests at the Franklaw water […]

United Utilities (UU) and its contractor have been fined almost £1 million for polluting a brook. The water company has been sentenced to pay £600,000 and contractor KMI+ has to pay £330,000, according to the Environment Agency. KMI+ was contracted by UU to carry out improvement works at Wayoh water treatment works at Turton Bottoms, […]

Severn Trent and United Utilities have been given the green light by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to form a joint venture targeting the business water retail market. The new company ‘Water Plus’ will be based in Hanley, Stoke on Trent and combine their non-household water and wastewater retail businesses, employing 400 people. It […]

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide £500 million to support water and wastewater projects in the UK. United Utilities, which serves seven million domestic and 200,000 business customers, will use the 18-year loan to finance improvements across the north-west of England. Projects being supported by the EIB loan include a proposed pipeline […]