United Utilities
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| Type | Public company |
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| Traded as | LSE: UU. |
| Industry | Utility – water, waste water |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Warrington, England, UK |
| Area served | North West England |
| Key people | Dr. John McAdam (Chairman) Steve Mogford (CEO) |
| Products | Water, waste water |
| Revenue | £2,439.1 million (2010)[1] |
| Operating income | £817.9 million (2010)[1] |
| Net income | £426.5 million (2010)[1] |
| Employees | 9,365 (2010)[1] |
| Website | www.UnitedUtilities.com |
United Utilities Group PLC (UU) (LSE: UU.) is the UK's largest listed water business. The Group manages the regulated water and waste water network in North West England - which includes the five counties of Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside with a combined population of nearly 7 million people.[2]
United Utilities has its headquarters in Warrington with 9,000 employees. Its shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange and it is a member of the FTSE 100 Index. North West England is the wettest region in England,[3] and water hardiness across the region tends to be soft to very soft.[4] United Utilities owns a network of reservoirs and is responsible for the provision and maintenance of water supply.
Some of these reservoirs that United Utilities own are located outside North West England such as the Longdendale Chain in Derbyshire as this was constructed by the Manchester Corporation in the 19th century. It has subsequently remained networked to the North West's water supply.
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[edit] History
United Utilities was created in 1995 by the merger of North West Water and NORWEB.
It sold its telecoms business, Your Communications in 2006, and Vertex in March 2007.[5]
In 2007 the company was given a £8.5m fine by water regulator Ofwat for breaching trading regulations.[6]
In December 2007, United Utilities sold its electricity distribution network assets to North West Electricity Networks (Jersey) Limitied, a joint venture between funds run by Colonial First State (part of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia) and US investment bank JPMorgan Chase. Electricity North West Limited became the licensed Distribution Network Operator for the north west of England as a consequence of the sale.[7] United Utilities continued to operate and maintain the network on behalf of Electricity Northwest until 2010, when Electricity Northwest bought the electricity network operations and maintenance arm of United Utilities to establish one Group which owns, operates, manages and maintains the network.[8]
In 2012 Barton WwTW Preston was named the centre of effluent excellence[citation needed]. However in practice the company has a very poor environmental record with a series of recent fines for illegal effluent discharges totalling over £200,000.[9][10][11]
[edit] Reservoirs
[edit] Cumbria
[edit] Cheshire
[edit] Derbyshire
[edit] Greater Manchester
[edit] Lancashire
- Anglezarke Reservoir
- Clowbridge
- Cowm Reservoir
- Dove Stone Reservoir
- Haslingden Grane
- Watergrove Reservoir
- Wayoh Reservoir
[edit] Activities
United Utilities operates water and wastewater networks. In North West England it is investing £3.6 billion between 2010–2015 to meet ever-increasing water quality standards, deliver environmental improvements and make their network more reliable.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Annual Report 2010
- ^ "Am I in the United Utilities water area?". United Utilities. http://ask.unitedutilities.co.uk/help/water/in_uu_area. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
- ^ "Why a hosepipe ban in England's wettest region?". BBC News. 25 June 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8763729.stm. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Water Hardiness". United Utilities. http://www.unitedutilities.com/Waterhardness.aspx. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
- ^ United Utilities to sell telecoms arm
- ^ United Utilities given £8.5m fine BBC News, 22 June 2007
- ^ United Utilities sells its power supplies network
- ^ Electricity Northwest buys network operations arm from United Utilities Utility Week, 28 June 2010
- ^ United Utilities pay £170K-plus for illegal sewage discharge Water Briefing 9 June 2011
- ^ Company prosecuted for discharging sewage effluent into a Widnes watercourse Runcorn and Widnes World, 20 November 2011
- ^ £27,000 pollution fine for United Utilities Water Briefing, 29 November 2011
- ^ United Utilities report on £3.6 billion investment London Drainage
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