Wessex Water
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| Headquarters | Bath |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Parent organizations | YTL Corporation |
| Ceo | Colin Skellett |
| Number of employees | 2,000 |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Subsidiaries | Wessex Engineering & Construction Services Ltd. |
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| ID | 2611938 |
About Wessex Water
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.
MPs call for investigation after BBC News report on sewage
... But BBC News cross-referenced 2022 spill data from Thames, Southern and Wessex Water with rainfall data, to identify 3,500 hours of potential dry spills - which are illegal...
Water firms illegally spilled sewage on dry days - data suggests
... Outrageous Across the Wessex Water region - from the Dorset coast to the Bristol area - BBC analysis identified 68 sites where sewage may have been discharged illegally last year...
Water companies say sorry over spilling raw sewage
... The water companies - Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Severn Trent Water, South West Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, United Utilities Water, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water - said they were ready to invest £10bn to upgrade their sewage infrastructure and also establish 100 new swimming areas...
Dorset heath fire: 'Largest blaze in years' under control
... " Wessex Water had been made aware of some supply issues in the area following the incident, DWFRS said, adding that residents should contact the supplier directly if problems continued...
Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
... Each protest targeted a separate water company: •Edinburgh - Scottish Water •Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water •Belfast - Northern Ireland Water •Scarborough - Yorkshire Water •Bath - Wessex Water •Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water •Worthing - Southern Water •Newquay - South West Water •Abergavenny - Welsh Water •Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water •Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent •New Brighton Beach, Wirral - United UtilitiesNic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E...
Why are water bills rising more in some areas?
... Users of Wessex Water - which also supplies water to Somerset and Dorset, as well as Bristol and Wiltshire, saw average bills stand at £470...
John Lewis says it is wrong to cut sick pay for unjabbed staff
... Sick pay cuts will also be implemented at Wessex Water and, in the US, several major companies have started penalising unjabbed workers...
Untreated sewage regularly dumped illegally in UK rivers
... He calculated that together the seven companies - Southern Water, South West Water, Thames Water, United Utilities, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water and Welsh Water - discharged untreated sewage from 59 treatment works that treat 4...
Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
Thousands of people have taken to rivers and waterways to protest against water companies dumping sewage in them.
The Day of action, organised by The Charity Surfers Against Sewage, involves 12 protests across the UK.
In Manningtree, Essex , wild swimmers marched and dressed up in mermaid and giant poo costumes by the River Stour .
Anglian Water , which admitted it dumped sewage in The River 389 times Last Year , said it was investing millions of pounds to rectify the " historic issue".
Catherine Arnold, a nutritional therapist who helped organised the Manningtree protest, said: " We Are So Lucky To Live in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we need to protect it. We don't release sewage into our gardens, why would we release it into our rivers? "
Water companies discharged raw sewage into British rivers 372,533 times Last Year , for a total of More Than 2. 6m hours, according to data from the Environment Agency .
Untreated sewage is only meant to be discharged into rivers in exceptional circumstances, for example, during heavy rainfall.
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Each protest targeted a separate water company:
•Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water
•Belfast - Northern Ireland Water
•Scarborough - Yorkshire Water
•Bath - Wessex Water
•Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water
•Newquay - South West Water
•Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water
•Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent
•New Brighton Beach , Wirral - United Utilities
Nic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E. coli counts in rivers. A sample he took in Manningtree showed an E. coli count of 1000cfu/100ml. The threshold for good bathing water is less than 500cfu/100ml.
He Said : " The Situation is quite bad. Every Time I sample in The River I'm shocked about the lack of biodiversity so I'm very concerned about it. "
Campaigner Anna Helm Baxter, who organised the Manningtree protest, said The Situation was " completely unacceptable".
" It's essential to keep up the pressure on the water companies and the government, who need to not only create stronger policies, and shorter timelines, but also make sure that they enforce their own rules, " she added.
'Riddled with sewage'The government announced last month.
Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage, said it did not go far enough. The Charity is calling for an end to sewage discharge into British bathing waters by 2030.
He Said British rivers had become pollution superhighways " riddled with sewage, chemicals and filth".
" The River and beach-loving public have had enough, " He Said . " Water companies must make urgent investments, funded from their vast profits, to turn off their filthy pollution tap and restore our rivers and seas. "
An Anglian Water spokesperson said: " Data from our 2021 monitoring programme tells us our performance continues to improve, and the increasing visibility we have of combined sewer overflow (CSO) activity gives us even more opportunities to act faster in the areas where we can have most environmental benefit.
" But we agree that CSOs are no longer an acceptable way of dealing with flooding and overloaded sewers and we need to do more. "
Source of news: bbc.com
