Wessex Water Services Limited, known as Wessex Water, is a water supply and sewerage utility company serving an area of the south west of England, covering 10,000 square kilometres including Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, most of Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire and Hampshire. Wessex Water supplies 1.3 million people with around 285 million litres of water a day.
It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991. The company currently employs about 2,000 employees.
Wessex Water is owned by the Malaysian power company YTL Corporation. It had been purchased by Azurix, an Enron-affiliated company, in 1998.
Read more about Wessex Water: History, Reservoirs and Lakes, GENeco, Environmental Record
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