Northumbrian Water has pledged to invest around £1 billion in services to its North East customers between 2015 and 2020.

Northumbrian Water has posted a profit of £150m on turnover of £756.9m for the financial year ended 31 March 2013, its full-year results show.

A £6 million scheme to ensure the bathing water at Saltburn passes tighter new European quality standards has been announced by Northumbrian Water.

Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water are two of four UK utility companies working together to provide a £21 billion package of network improvements over the next ten years in the North East of England.

Engineering firm Costain has won a significant contract to build a new duplicate raw water main for Northumbrian Water from an existing intake point at Ovingham on the River Tyne, west of Newcastle, to Horsley treatment works.

 

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP has called for more investment by Asian companies in UK infrastructure, citing Cheung Kong Group, owners of Northumbrian Water, as the example.

Credit ratings agency Moody's has affirmed Northumbrian Water's ratings at Baa1, and changed its outlook to stable from negative.

Global management, engineering and development consultancy Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL) as one of four consultants on its Technical Services framework in the UK.

Leading European engineering consultancy, Grontmij has been appointed to a 10-year framework with Northumbrian Water Limited, worth an estimated £2 - 4 million per annum.