Southern Water CEO Lawrence Gosden takes a forward look at the company’s improvement story following the publication yesterday of performance reports by Ofwat and the Environment Agency using data from 2024 flagging up failings in the water company’s performance.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) continues to strengthen its regulation of the water industry in Wales, as data from its annual Environmental Performance Assessment report shows another year of disappointing results for Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water.

The Environment Agency (EA) is once again calling on the nine water and wastewater companies in England to urgently improve their performance as the latest Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) for 2024 reveals the lowest ratings since the process began in 2011.

The Environment Agency is pushing water companies to strengthen their efforts to improve the environment by tightening up the way it ranks and tracks their performance - from 2027, the EA’s annual Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) reporting will look different.

Severn Trent has again been awarded the highest 4-star status in the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) for a fifth consecutive year by the Environment Agency - the first time this has ever been achieved.

The Environment Agency has today published its annual report on the environmental performance of England’s nine water and sewerage companies during 2023 – the data show that the majority of companies continue to underperform.

Environment Agency Chair Alan Lovell has described the performance of many of the 9 English water and sewerage companies for 2022 as "very disappointing with minimal improvement in star ratings compared to 2021.". 

The Environment Agency has today released its latest Environmental Performance Assessment on the environmental performance of England’s 9 water and sewerage companies which shows environmental performance of England’s 9 water and sewerage companies has declined.

Yorkshire Water has been named as a four-star, industry-leading company by the Environment Agency (EA) in its Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA), which analyses the performance of water companies.

Northumbrian Water has retained its industry-leading position on pollution and restored its Four Star rating with the publication of the Environment Agency’s (EA’s) Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA).