Wessex Water
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Water supply and sewerage services |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Headquarters | Bath, Somerset |
| Employees | 2,000 |
| Parent | YTL Corporation |
| Website | www.wessexwater.co.uk |
Wessex Water Services Limited, known as Wessex Water, is a water supply and sewerage utility company serving an area of the south west of England, covering 10,000 square kilometres including Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, most of Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire and Hampshire.[1] Wessex Water supplies 1.3 million people with around 285 million litres of water a day.
It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991. The company currently employs about 2,000 employees.[2]
Wessex Water is owned by the Malaysian power company YTL Corporation.[3] It had been purchased by Azurix, an Enron-affiliated company, in 1998.
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[edit] History
The company originated as the Wessex Water Authority, one of ten regional water authorities established by the Water Act 1973. Privatised, in 1989, Wessex Water Services Limited was purchased by Enron in July 1998 for $2.4 billion. Following that company's collapse Wessex Water was sold to YTL Power International of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2002.
The company is headquartered on the edge of Bath in Claverton Down, in a new energy efficient building by Bennetts Associates and Buro Happold.[4]
The water authority acquired the assets and duties of a number of public sector and local authority water utilities:
- Bristol Avon River Authority
- Somerset River Authority
- Avon and Dorset River Authority (except the part of the area of that drains to the River Lim)
- Bath Corporation
- Dorset Water Board
- North Wilts Water Board
- South Wilts Water Board
- Wessex Water Board
- West Somerset Water Board
- West Wilts Water Board
- Bournemouth and District Water Company †
- Bristol Waterworks Company
- Cholderton and District Water Company †
- West Hampshire Water Company †
- West Lulworth Water Undertaking
[edit] Reservoirs and lakes
The company owns and manages several reservoirs including; Blashford Lakes in Dorset, Clatworthy Reservoir, Durleigh Reservoir, Hawkridge Reservoir, Otterhead Lakes, Sutton Bingham Reservoir and Tucking Mill in Somerset, many of which, in addition to supplying drinking water are used for recreation and as nature reserves.[5]
[edit] GENeco
GENeco is part of the Wessex Water group of companies and operate sewage treatment works. It recycles waste, produces renewable energy and provides the agricultural industry with fertiliser. In summer 2010, GENeco launched the Bio-Bug, a modified VW Beetle that runs on bio-gas generated from waste treated at sewage treatment works.[6] Waste flushed down the toilets of just 70 homes in Bristol is enough to power the Bio-Bug for a year, based on an annual mileage of 10,000 miles.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ "What we do". Wessex Water. http://www.wessexwater.co.uk/about/threecol.aspx?id=72. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ Wessex Water website http://www.wessexwater.co.uk/about/threecol.aspx?id=1666&linkidentifier=id&itemid=1666
- ^ "Malaysian energy group YTL buys Wessex Water for £1.2bn". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/malaysian-energy-group-ytl-buys-wessex-water-for-pound12bn-655509.html. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ "Wessex Water Operations Centre". Buro Happold. http://www.burohappold.com/BH/PRJ_BLD_wessex_water_operations_centre.aspx. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ "Reservoirs and lakes". Wessex Water. http://www.wessexwater.co.uk/recreation/threecol.aspx?id=508&linkidentifier=id&itemid=508. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- ^ BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-10881080
- ^ http://www.geneco.uk.com/about/index.aspx?id=6028
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