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Within this choice set, the preferred water tariff depends on multiple factors including: the goals of water pricing; the capacity of a water services supplier to allocate its costs, to price water, and to collect revenues from its customers; the price responsiveness of water consumers; and what is considered to be a fair or just water tariff. [4]
As of 2022, Thames Water extracts, treats and supplies 2.5 billion litres (550 million imperial gallons) of drinking water per day using 97 water treatment works, 308 clean water pumping stations and 31,100 km (19,300 mi) of managed water mains to 10.2 million customers (4 million properties) across London and the Thames Valley. [64]
This comprised detritus removal, a screen house, primary sedimentation tanks, a diffused air activated sludge plant and sludge digestion. The works were extended in 1967 to treat 1.14 million cubic metres per day of sewage, although they were capable of accepting a flow of 2.6 million cubic metres per day.
The regulator Ofwat sets limits on how much water companies can increase their prices. ... with Thames Water customers facing an increase of £99 or 23%, Anglian customers looking at £66 or 13% ...
According to a 2006 survey by NUS consulting the average water tariff (price) without sewerage in the U.K. for large consumers was the equivalent of US$1.90 per cubic metre. This was the third-highest tariff among the 14 mostly OECD countries covered by the report.
Hampton Water Treatment Works buildings alongside the A308. Hampton Water Treatment Works are water treatment works located on the River Thames in Hampton, London.Built in the second half of the 19th Century to supply London with fresh water, the Waterworks was in the past a significant local employer, and its brick pumphouses dominate the local landscape. [1]
Britain’s biggest water company currently has only enough funding to see it through to the end of May next year, and is scrambling for fresh cash.
In March 2003 Thames Water identified that by 2005 there would be a deficit in water treatment and supply capacity in North London. To address this deficit a new water treatment facility was constructed on 1.5 ha site adjacent to the William Girling reservoir and the A110 road ( 51°38′11″N 0°00′57″W / 51.63629°N 0.01582°W ...