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Last reviewed: 19.6.2012 - 11.48am

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Our business

  • UK's largest water and wastewater services provider
  • 14 million customers
  • 4,500 employees
  • One of the cheapest providers, with un-metered customers paying an average of 88p per day, and metered customers paying an average of 73p per day
  • Kemble Water Limited, a consortium of institutional investors managed by the Macquarie Capital Funds (Europe) Limited, acquired Thames Water on 1 December 2006

Water services

  • 9 million clean water customers in London and the Thames Valley
  • An average of 2,600m litres of drinking water supplied per day
  • Operation and maintenance of 100 water treatment works, 30 raw water reservoirs, 288 pumping stations and 235 clean water service reservoirs
  • Our tap water costs less than a tenth of a penny per litre
  • Drinking water quality is meeting 99.97 per cent of stringent tests
  • Half a million drinking water quality tests undertaken each year

Sewerage services

  • 14 million wastewater customers
  • 350 sewage works treating an average of more than 4bn litres per day
  • 66,500 miles of sewer, 2,530 pumping stations and 1.2 million manholes
  • Two sludge-powered generators and 19 combined heat and power plants generating 187 GWh of renewable electricity
  • All wastewater treatment facilities are currently operating within Environment Agency compliance guidelines

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Our achievements

Over the past few years, we have performed better than ever, and our business has been recognised and rewarded by many bodies.

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Our history

Our history

Our history dates back to the 1600s with the creation of the New River.

  • From 1600 to 2012
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