Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2002

Table 3.1: Water companies serving the region



 

Severn Trent

South Staffordshire

Welsh Water

Amount of Water Supplied:

2,000 Ml/d

337 Ml/d

1,000 Ml/d

Consumers Supplied

7.36 million

1.2 million

2.8 million

Areas of Supply:

The region stretches from the Humber Estuary in the north to Bristol Channel in the south, Llyn Clywedog in Wales in the west and Lincolnshire in the east

Ashbourne (Derbyshire) in the north to Halesowen (Worcestershire) in the south, and Tamworth in the east to the M5 motorway in the west

Most of Wales and parts of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire

Water Composition:

65% from rivers and reservoirs and 35% from boreholes and aquifers

50% from rivers and reservoirs and 50% from boreholes and aquifers

94% from rivers and reservoirs and 6% from boreholes and aquifers

Treatment Works:

179

22

104

Service Reservoirs:

623

37

588

Km of Mains:

41,000

5,788

24,900

Water Supply Zones:

285

40

177

 


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