Type Private company Headquarters Bath, United Kingdom Number of employees 2,000 | Industry Water industry CEO Colin Skellett (1988–) Founded 1973 | |
Key people Colin Skellett (Executive chairman) Products Drinking water
Recycled wastewater Services Water supply and sewerage services Revenue £ 224 million (2013)
£219 million (2012) Production output 0.270 Gl/day (drinking); 0.460 Gl/day (recycled) Parent organizations YTL Corporation, Wessex Water, Wessex Water Limited Subsidiaries Wessex Water, SC Technology Denmark ApS Profiles | ||
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Wessex Water Services Limited, known as Wessex Water, is a water supply and sewerage utility company serving an area of South West England, covering 10,000 square kilometres including Bristol, most of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire and Hampshire. Wessex Water supplies 1.3 million people with around 285 million litres of water a day.
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- Wessex water v bristol water flow management ltd charity shield no titles
- Careers at wessex water
- History
- Customer service
- Drinking water quality
- Leakage
- Carbon footprint
- Reservoirs and lakes
- GENeco
- Environmental record
- References
It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991. In 2016, the company had about 2,100 employees.
Wessex Water is owned by the Malaysian power company YTL Corporation. Its headquarters are on the outskirts of Bath in Claverton Down, in a modern energy-efficient building by Bennetts Associates and Buro Happold.
Careers at wessex water
History
The company originated as the Wessex Water Authority, one of ten regional water authorities established by the Water Act 1973 which were privatised in 1989. Wessex Water Services Limited was purchased by American company Enron in 1998 for $2.4 billion and placed in a newly formed subsidiary, Azurix. Following Enron's collapse, Wessex Water was sold to YTL Power International of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2002.
The water authority had acquired the assets and duties of a number of public sector and local authority water utilities:
Customer service
Wessex Water achieved a score of 4.53 in Ofwat’s ‘Satisfaction by company’ survey 2012/13 (5 being ‘very satisfied’).
Drinking water quality
In 2013 Wessex Water's compliance with drinking water standards exceeded 99.9% and the company maintained 100% compliance with sewage treatment discharge consents.
Leakage
In both 2011/12 and 2012/13 the company's leakage figure was 69 million litres per day, compared to a yearly average of 73 million litres per day between 2005–10.
Carbon footprint
Wessex Water's greenhouse gas emissions totalled 149 kilotonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2011/12 and 159 kilotonnes in 2012/13.
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.
GENeco
GENeco is part of the Wessex Water group of companies and operates 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. 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.
In November 2014, the UK's first bus powered entirely by human and food waste went into service between Bristol and Bath, run by tour operator Bath Bus Company. The biomethane gas is generated at Bristol sewage treatment works in Avonmouth, which is run by GENeco.