Severn Trent

Severn Trent is a service company in the UK, which is traded on the London Stock Exchange under the one hundred most important stocks in the FTSE share index.

The Group employs more than 15,000 employees in the United Kingdom, the United States and in mainland Europe. The company is controlled by the regulator, Ofwat.

The Group includes the following companies:

  • Severn Trent Water
  • Biffa Waste
  • Severn Trent Laboratories
  • Severn Trent Services

Severn Trent Water is one of ten privatized water companies in England. The company offers fresh water and provides wastewater treatment for approximately 8,000,000 people in the Midlands of England, and in several regions of Wales safe. The company's name is derived from the two major rivers in the area, the rivers Severn and Trent.

The company was initially created as " Severn -Trent Water Authority " by the " Water Act 1973" and took the following public water suppliers:

  • Birmingham Corporation
  • Coventry Corporation
  • Leicester Corporation
  • Nottingham Corporation
  • Stafford Corporation
  • Wolverhampton Corporation
  • Cannock Rural District Council
  • Central Nottinghamshire Water Board
  • East Shropshire Water Board
  • Montgomeryshire Water Board
  • North Derbyshire Water Board
  • North East Warwickshire Water Board
  • Northwest Gloucestershire Water Board
  • North West Leicestershire Water Board
  • North West Worcestershire Water Board
  • Rugby Joint Water Board
  • South Derbyshire Water Board
  • South Warwickshire Water Board
  • South West Worcestershire Water Board
  • Staffordshire Potteries Water Board
  • West Shropshire Water Board
  • East Worcestershire Waterworks Company ( resolved)
  • South Staffordshire Water Works Company ( resolved)

And two flow areas of supervision:

  • Trent River Authority
  • Severn Trent Authority

Severn Trent controls, among other things, a number of water reservoirs:

  • Carsington reservoir
  • Clywedog reservoir
  • Draycote Water
  • Foremark reservoir
  • Upper Derwent Valley ( Howden Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Ladybower Reservoir )
  • Lake Vyrnwy
  • Tittesworth reservoir
Types of business entity International Securities Identification Number John Egan (industrialist) River Trent Derwent Reservoir (Derbyshire)
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