South West Water already delivers water and waste water services to over 70,000 business customers across all sectors in the South West.
The new venture offers businesses the opportunity to make savings through water efficiency advice, trade effluent management and laboratory services, as well as a range of online billing and account services tailored to suit individual business needs.
The new venture is headed by South West Water's Head of Business Development David Roberts. He said:
"We support more than 5,000 jobs in our region and invest £140m a year with thousands of suppliers. We also have a strong track record when it comes to working with our business customers to reduce their water usage and their costs.
"We are launching the Source for Business brand to demonstrate our commitment to helping businesses across all sectors. Through the Source for Business team, South West Water will now deliver extra value to more customers through an expanded range of business-to-business services."
Services will be available to business outside South West Water region
Source for Business will also offer advice and project management for new treatment installations and infrastructure improvements.
South West Water said companies already using the business services were extremely pleased with the results. Mark Rundle, Operational Systems and Admin Services Manager at IMERYS commented:
"I log onto Business Accounts Online at least once a week to review our water use profiles and find the information is invaluable for detecting leaks and unusual consumption. I also use the text message service which gives me up-to-the minute warnings of excessive usage. Previously, it could take months before we detected major leaks. The logger facility and website has undoubtedly assisted in saving us many thousands of pounds."
Godfrey Whitehouse, Energy Manager, University of Exeter said the water efficiency surveys had been fundamental to reducing the University’s water consumption across all of its sites, making a real impact on water charges.
Many of the services will also be available to customers outside of the South West Water region - an interesting development in the light of forthcoming moves to broaden competition in the sector.
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