Potable Water
Drinking water is an important resource in all communities. People need clean, good quality water to minimise, or better still, to prevent, immediate or long term health problems. Clean, good quality drinking water is commonly called potable water.
In the UK the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) provides independent reassurance that water supplies in England and Wales are safe and drinking water quality is acceptable to consumers.
Visit them on their Website: www.dwi.gov.uk
Water companies
According to the www.water-guide.org.uk website there are twenty companies supplying water to England and Wales, one company supplying water to Scotland and one company supplying water to Northern Ireland.
The list of water companies cuurently supplying consumers throughout the UK is as follows:
UK Water Companies
- Anglian Water
- Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water
- Bristol Water
- Cambridge Water
- Cholderton and District Water
- Dee Valley Water
- Dwr Cymru (Welsh Water)
- Essex and Suffolk Water
- Veolia Water Southeast
- Northumbrian Water
- Portsmouth Water
- Scottish Water
- Severn Trent Water
- South Staffordshire water
- South East Water
- South West Water
- Southern Water
- Sutton and East Surrey Water
- Veolia Water East
- Thames Water
- Veolia Water
- United Utilities Water
- Wessex Water
- Yorkshire Water