Water: Standards
(asked on 7th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2023 to Question 186323 on Water: Standards, how many discoloration events were recorded by the Drinking Water Inspectorate in each of the last five years, broken down by each water company.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Total discolouration events for the period 2017-2021 subdivided by company are as follows:
2017 |
| 2018 |
| 2019 |
| 2020 |
| 2021 | ||||||
Affinity Water Ltd | 3 |
| Affinity Water Ltd | 1 |
| Anglian Water Services Ltd | 4 |
| Anglian Water Services Ltd | 5 |
| Anglian Water Services Ltd | 5 | |
Anglian Water Services Ltd | 9 |
| Anglian Water Services Ltd | 3 |
| Bristol Water Plc | 3 |
| Bristol Water plc | 4 |
| Bristol Water plc | 5 | |
Northumbrian Essex and Suffolk Water | 9 |
| Bristol Water plc | 2 |
| Cambridge Water Company Plc | 1 |
| Northumbrian Essex and Suffolk Water | 6 |
| Northumbrian Essex and Suffolk Water | 7 | |
South East Water | 12 |
| Northumbrian Essex and Suffolk Water | 4 |
| Northumbrian Essex and Suffolk Water | 3 |
| SES Water | 1 |
| SES Water | 1 | |
Southern Water Services Ltd | 7 |
| South East Water | 8 |
| South East Water | 4 |
| South East Water | 10 |
| South East Water | 6 | |
South Staffordshire Water Plc | 4 |
| Southern Water Services Ltd | 8 |
| Southern Water Services Ltd | 3 |
| Southern Water Services Ltd | 8 |
| Southern Water Services Ltd | 5 | |
Severn Trent Water Ltd | 24 |
| South Staffordshire Water Plc | 5 |
| South Staffordshire Water Plc | 3 |
| South Staffordshire Water Plc | 3 |
| South Staffordshire Water Plc | 1 | |
South West and Bournemouth Water | 11 |
| Severn Trent Water Ltd | 26 |
| Severn Trent Water Ltd | 22 |
| Severn Trent Water Ltd | 17 |
| Severn Trent Water Ltd | 9 | |
Thames Water Utilities Ltd | 5 |
| South West and Bournemouth Water | 12 |
| South West and Bournemouth Water | 10 |
| South West and Bournemouth Water | 8 |
| South West and Bournemouth Water | 12 | |
United Utilities Water Plc | 13 |
| Thames Water Utilities Ltd | 4 |
| Thames Water Utilities Ltd | 2 |
| Thames Water Utilities Ltd | 3 |
| Thames Water Utilities Ltd | 6 | |
Wessex Water Services Ltd | 9 |
| United Utilities Water Plc | 5 |
| United Utilities Water Plc | 9 |
| United Utilities Water Plc | 19 |
| United Utilities Water Plc | 19 | |
Yorkshire Water Services Ltd | 12 |
| Wessex Water Services Ltd | 3 |
| Wessex Water Services Ltd | 3 |
| Wessex Water Services Ltd | 3 |
| YKS | 10 | |
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| Yorkshire Water Services Ltd | 13 |
| Yorkshire Water Services Ltd | 8 |
| Yorkshire Water Services Ltd | 7 |
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Total | 118 |
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| 94 |
|
| 75 |
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| 94 |
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| 86 | |