Southern Water is launching a task force to cut storm overflows by 80 per cent by 2030 as part of the company’s zero tolerance approach to pollution – customers have made it clear the use of storm releases is no longer acceptable. Ian McAulay, Southern Water’s CEO, said: ”There is a growing call to take […]
Record £90m fine for Southern Water following EA prosecution Environment Agency ‘Southern Water sentenced to pay record £90 million in fines for widespread pollution after pleading guilty to 6,971 unpermitted sewage discharges. Southern Water has today (Friday 9 July) been handed a record £90 million fine after pleading guilty to thousands of illegal discharges of […]
Ian McAulay, CEO of Southern Water, has expressed the company’s disappointment with its fall in the ratings in the Environment Agency’s annual report on the environmental performance of the nine water and sewerage companies in England released this week. The recent EA report shows four out of the nine companies are falling short of expected standards – […]
Bidstats Southern Water has gone out to tender with a contract for a Private Wire Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) worth an estimated £100 million. The water company is looking to put a framework panel of private wire solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) providers in place to work in partnership with the utility to explore […]
Southern Water has published its Water Resources Management Plan – the company said for the first time is now looking forward 50 years so it can be prepared to meet the challenges of a very different world. Launching the plan, Nicholas Price, water resource planning manager at Southern Water, commented: “Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan made a speech this […]
Ofwat ‘In its final decision published today, Ofwat has confirmed that Southern Water will pay £126m in penalties and rebates to existing and former wastewater customers. This package of penalties and rebates is the biggest Ofwat has ever imposed reflecting the serious failures in the operation of Southern Water’s sewage treatment sites, and the deliberate […]
Southern Water – Strong Stuff from Rachel Fletcher ……… 28 June 2019 To Water Companies ‘Dear Chief Executive, This has been a dark week for the water industry. The publication of our findings against Southern Water for sewage treatment failures, and the deliberate misreporting of its poor performance from 2010 to 2017, rightly met with […]
Ofwat “Southern Water has agreed to pay £126m in penalties and payments to customers following serious failures in the operation of its sewage treatment sites and for deliberately misreporting its performance. In the course of a large-scale investigation into the water company, Ofwat found that Southern Water failed to operate a number of wastewater treatments […]