Water Companies: Standards
(asked on 5th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many water companies missed their leakage targets in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
No companies missed their leakage targets for the financial years 2014/15 and 2015/16. Six companies missed their leakage targets in 2016/17. These were:
Water company | Performance commitment (Million litres per day) | Actual performance (Million litres per day) |
Bristol Water | 47 | 47.4 |
Essex and Suffolk Water | 66.00 | 68.08 |
Portsmouth Water | 29.95 | 30.37 |
Sutton and East Surrey Water | 24.30 | 24.34 |
Cambridge Water | 13.5 | 14.32 |
Thames Water | 630 | 677 |
The reported level of performance is based on Ofwat’s 2014 Price Review (PR14) methodology.
Leakage figures for all the water companies in England and Wales are available at Discover Water https://discoverwater.co.uk/leaking-pipes.