Wessex Water

Wessex Water
Company typePrivate company
IndustryWater industry
Founded1973
HeadquartersBath, Somerset
Key people
Products
Production output
  • 0.270 Gl/day (drinking)
  • 0.460 Gl/day (recycled)
ServicesWater supply and sewerage services
Revenue
  • Increase £ 552.3 million (2020)
  • £547.7 million (2019)
  • Decrease £ 212.5 million (2020)
  • £228.4 million (2019)
  • Decrease £ 66.6 million (2020)
  • £110.2 million (2019)
Number of employees
2,547
ParentYTL Corporation, of Malaysia
Websitewww.wessexwater.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata

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.[1] Wessex Water supplies 1.3 million people with around 285 million litres of water a day.

The company is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991. In 2016, it had about 2,100 employees.[2]

Wessex Water is owned by the Malaysian power company YTL Corporation.[3] Its headquarters are on the outskirts of Bath at Claverton Down, in a modern energy-efficient building by Bennetts Associates and Buro Happold.[4]

  1. ^ "About the company". Wessex Water. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  2. ^ Wessex Water website http://www.wessexwater.co.uk/About-us/The-company/Our-employees/
  3. ^ "Malaysian energy group YTL buys Wessex Water for £1.2bn". The Independent. Retrieved 13 November 2010.[dead link‍]
  4. ^ "Wessex Water Operations Centre". Buro Happold. Retrieved 13 November 2010.