Industry Utility Headquarters Walsall, United Kingdom Parent organization SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE PLC | Website Official Website Founded 1853 | |
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Type Private fund owned public limited company Key people Phil Newland - Managing Director CEO Phil Newland (1 Apr 2014–) | ||
South Staffordshire Water plc known as South Staffs Water is a UK water supply company owned by a privately owned utilities company serving parts of Staffordshire and the West Midlands, England. South Staffordshire Water Plc is part of South Staffordshire Plc. It purchased Cambridge Water in 2011. In 2013, KKR & Co. L.P., a company registered in the United States of America, acquired South Staffordshire Water from Alinda Infrastructure Fund.
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Company
South Staffordshire Water provides drinking water to 1.29 million consumers and supplies 330 million litres of water every day across a network of pipes that total 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) in length to approximately 500,000 homes and 36,000 business customers in an area covering 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi). Under Ofwat’s measure of overall service to customers, OPA, the company has been positioned in the top 5 of the generally 20–23 water companies in every year since 1999.
As South Staffordshire Water is a water only company Severn Trent Water provides all mains sewerage services to customers in South Staffordshire's designated area.
Supply Area
The area supplied is to the north and west of Birmingham and includes
Performance
South Staffordshire Water was joint first with Anglian Water in Ofwat’s Service Incentive Mechanism ‘Satisfaction by Company’ survey 2012/13.
The company were 99.91% compliant with drinking water quality tests carried out in 2012/13.
Leakage performance was at 65.3 megalitres per day in 2012/13, compared to 68.2 Ml/d in 2011/12 and 72.8 Ml/d in 2010/11.
The annual operational greenhouse gas emissions of the regulated business were 55.41 kilotonnes in 2012/13, compared to 61.61 ktC02e in 2011/12.