Water Supply

(asked on 17th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the amount of water lost through leakage in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 25th November 2020

The Discover Water website publishes up to date records on leakage. Details can be found here: discoverwater.co.uk/leaking-pipes.

Severn Trent and South Staffordshire cover Coventry and the West Midlands. A map of the area that each water company in England covers can be found here: www.ofwat.gov.uk/contact-companies.

Below is the data as reported by the water companies in their annual returns on water resources management plans. We have included the total leakage for Severn Trent Water and South Staffordshire Water which are the water companies in the area. The total leakage is in megalitres per day. One megalitre is 1,000,000 litres.

Water Company

Total leakage Ml/d

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Severn Trent Water

Total leakage Ml/d

440

429

424

446

418

399

South Staffordshire Water

Total leakage Ml/d

69

70

70

72

71

69

England total

Total leakage Ml/d

2921

2876

2899

2967

2951

2771

Water Company

Leakage l/property/d

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

Severn Trent Water

Leakage l/property/d

125.68

121.58

118.84

123.27

114.88

108.51

South Staffordshire Water

Leakage l/property/d

119.30

119.46

118.91

122.59

123.63

115.16

England average

Leakage l/property/d

124.24

121.47

120.78

124.14

120.83

111.57

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