Yorkshire Water

Yorkshire Water Ltd.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryWater industry
Founded1973
HeadquartersBradford, England
Area served
Yorkshire
Key people
Products
Production output
  • 1.3 Gl/day (drinking)
  • 1.0 Gl/day (recycled)
Revenue£1.1 billion (2020–2021)[3]
Number of employees
2,500
ParentKelda Group
Websiteyorkshirewater.com

Yorkshire Water is a British water supply and treatment utility company servicing West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, part of North Lincolnshire, most of North Yorkshire and part of Derbyshire, in England. The company has its origins in the Yorkshire Water Authority, one of ten regional water authorities created by the Water Act 1973, and privatised under the terms of the Water Act 1989, when Yorkshire Water plc, the parent company of the Yorkshire Water business, was floated on the London Stock Exchange. The parent company was Kelda Group in 1999.[4] In February 2008, Kelda Group was bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds.

It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991.

  1. ^ Ames, Daryl (16 June 2021). "Woman with OBE appointed new chair of Yorkshire Water at 'critical time'". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  2. ^ Ungoed-Thomas, Jon (21 August 2022). "England's highly paid water bosses rake it in from lucrative second jobs". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  3. ^ Wood, Alexandra (16 August 2022). "Bosses at Yorkshire Water paid more than £3m in bonuses – despite leakages running at 283.1 million litres per day". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Company History". Kelda Group. Retrieved 13 May 2013.