Northumbrian Water Limited is a water company in the United Kingdom, providing mains water and sewerage services in the English counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham and parts of North Yorkshire, and also supplying water as Essex and Suffolk Water. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbrian Water Group.
Area of operations[edit]
Northumbrian Water's operations cover an area of 1488 miles (9,400 km2) and extend from the urban conurbations of Tyneside, Wearside and Teesside to the sparsely populated rural districts of Durham and Northumberland. A small area around Hartlepool is excluded from NW's water supply licence; this area is supplied by Hartlepool Water, a water-only company.[3]
The total population served by NW is 2.7m people using:[1]
44 impounding reservoirs
57 water treatment works
344 water pumping stations
338 water service reservoirs
25,545 km of water mains
418 sewage treatment works
765 sewage pumping stations
29,724 km of sewers (including the transfer of 13,510 km of private drains and sewers on 1 October 2011)[1]