Hosepipe Ban

Water companies in England and Wales still have much work ahead of them - despite improving performance and pumping over £4.3 billion into maintaining existing assets and investing in new facilities in 2006-2007, according to Ofwat. The water regulator has examined annual returns from the 22 water companies...

Water companies in England and Wales reduced the amount of water lost to leakage by nearly 160 million litres of water (Ml/d) a day. This is equal to the daily needs of around one million domestic consumers. Figures released by Ofwat today reveal that for 2006-07 overall leakage fell: from 3,575 Ml/d...