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HeadquartersCoventry
United Kingdom
Ceo Liv Garfield
Revenue1. 694 billion GBP (2018)
Subsidiaries Water Plus
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About Severn Trent


Severn Trent plc is a water company based in the United Kingdom that is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Oxfordshire explosion: Plant had permission for lightning mast

Oxfordshire explosion: Plant had permission for lightning mast
Oct 5,2023 2:11 am

... Severn Trent Green Power refused to confirm whether the 22m (72ft) mast had been installed prior to the incident in Oxfordshire on Monday...

Fire crews tackle Oxfordshire recycling plant blast through night

Fire crews tackle Oxfordshire recycling plant blast through night
Oct 3,2023 3:11 am

... A tank at the Severn Trent Green Power site was struck by lightning on Monday at 19:20 BST, causing the gases within it to ignite and explode...

Water firms face legal action over sewage pollution

Water firms face legal action over sewage pollution
Aug 8,2023 10:40 pm

... Severn Trent is the first in line, with claims against the other firms expected in the coming months...

Shock as car left stranded in Coventry sinkhole

Shock as car left stranded in Coventry sinkhole
Jul 24,2023 10:00 am

... " Officers attended and closed the road so the car could be recovered and Severn Trent could work on the damage, " a spokesman said...

Water companies say sorry over spilling raw sewage

Water companies say sorry over spilling raw sewage
May 18,2023 12:41 am

... The water companies - Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Severn Trent Water, South West Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, United Utilities Water, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water - said they were ready to invest £10bn to upgrade their sewage infrastructure and also establish 100 new swimming areas...

How Qatar's riches touch millions of UK lives

How Qatar's riches touch millions of UK lives
Nov 23,2022 7:40 pm

... Turn on the tap as a Severn Trent water customer, and your bill adds to its profits...

Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers

Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers
Apr 23,2022 5:10 pm

... Each protest targeted a separate water company: •Edinburgh - Scottish Water •Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water •Belfast - Northern Ireland Water •Scarborough - Yorkshire Water •Bath - Wessex Water •Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water •Worthing - Southern Water •Newquay - South West Water •Abergavenny - Welsh Water •Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water •Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent •New Brighton Beach, Wirral - United UtilitiesNic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E...

Sewage: Ban water firm bonuses until discharges end, Lib Dems say

Sewage: Ban water firm bonuses until discharges end, Lib Dems say
Apr 18,2022 2:50 pm

... They claimed United Utilities paid out the largest package of bonuses, worth nearly £6m, followed by Severn Trent (£5...

Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers

Apr 16,2022 9:15 am

Thousands of people have taken to rivers and waterways to protest against water companies dumping sewage in them.

The Day of action, organised by The Charity Surfers Against Sewage, involves 12 protests across the UK.

In Manningtree, Essex , wild swimmers marched and dressed up in mermaid and giant poo costumes by the River Stour .

Anglian Water , which admitted it dumped sewage in The River 389 times Last Year , said it was investing millions of pounds to rectify the " historic issue".

Catherine Arnold, a nutritional therapist who helped organised the Manningtree protest, said: " We Are So Lucky To Live in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we need to protect it. We don't release sewage into our gardens, why would we release it into our rivers? "

Water companies discharged raw sewage into British rivers 372,533 times Last Year , for a total of More Than 2. 6m hours, according to data from the Environment Agency .

Untreated sewage is only meant to be discharged into rivers in exceptional circumstances, for example, during heavy rainfall.

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Each protest targeted a separate water company:

Edinburgh - Scottish Water

Tynemouth - Northumbrian Water

Belfast - Northern Ireland Water

Scarborough - Yorkshire Water

Bath - Wessex Water

•Manningtree, Essex - Anglian Water

Worthing - Southern Water

Newquay - South West Water

Abergavenny - Welsh Water

•Victoria Embankment Garden, London - Thames Water

•Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire - Severn Trent

•New Brighton Beach , Wirral - United Utilities

Nic Bury, professor of environmental toxicology at the University of Suffolk, is running a project looking at E. coli counts in rivers. A sample he took in Manningtree showed an E. coli count of 1000cfu/100ml. The threshold for good bathing water is less than 500cfu/100ml.

He Said : " The Situation is quite bad. Every Time I sample in The River I'm shocked about the lack of biodiversity so I'm very concerned about it. "

Campaigner Anna Helm Baxter, who organised the Manningtree protest, said The Situation was " completely unacceptable".

" It's essential to keep up the pressure on the water companies and the government, who need to not only create stronger policies, and shorter timelines, but also make sure that they enforce their own rules, " she added.

'Riddled with sewage'

The government announced last month.

Hugo Tagholm, CEO of Surfers Against Sewage, said it did not go far enough. The Charity is calling for an end to sewage discharge into British bathing waters by 2030.

He Said British rivers had become pollution superhighways " riddled with sewage, chemicals and filth".

" The River and beach-loving public have had enough, " He Said . " Water companies must make urgent investments, funded from their vast profits, to turn off their filthy pollution tap and restore our rivers and seas. "

An Anglian Water spokesperson said: " Data from our 2021 monitoring programme tells us our performance continues to improve, and the increasing visibility we have of combined sewer overflow (CSO) activity gives us even more opportunities to act faster in the areas where we can have most environmental benefit.

" But we agree that CSOs are no longer an acceptable way of dealing with flooding and overloaded sewers and we need to do more. "



Source of news: bbc.com

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