South Staffordshire Water
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Type | Private fund owned public limited company |
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Industry | Utility |
Founded | 1853 |
Headquarters | Walsall , Staffordshire , England, UK |
Key people
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Sir
James Perowne
- Chairman
Phil Newland - Managing Director [1] |
Parent | Arjun Infrastructure Partners |
Subsidiaries | SSI Services, Echo Managed Services |
Website |
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South Staffordshire Water plc known as South Staffs Water is a UK water supply company owned by a privately owned utilities company serving parts of Staffordshire the West Midlands as well as small areas of surrounding counties in England . South Staffordshire Water plc is part of South Staffordshire plc. It purchased Cambridge Water in 2011. In 2013, KKR & Co. L.P. , a company registered in the United States of America, acquired South Staffordshire Water from Alinda Infrastructure Fund. As of April 2018, KKR & Co. has agreed to sell its 75% equity stake in South Staffordshire Water to Arjun Infrastructure Partners (AIP). [2]
Company
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South Staffordshire Water provides drinking water to 1.6 million consumers and supplies 330 million litres of water every day across a network of pipes that total 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) in length to approximately 500,000 homes and 36,000 business customers in an area covering 1,500 square kilometres (580 sq mi) . Under Ofwat 's measure of overall service to customers, OPA, the company has been positioned in the top five of the generally 20–23 water companies in every year since 1999. [3]
As South Staffordshire Water is a water-only company Severn Trent Water provides all mains sewerage services to customers in South Staffordshire's designated area. [4]
Supply area
The South Staffordshire Water supply area covers areas to the north and west of Birmingham . The majority of the supply area is within the counties of Staffordshire and the West Midlands but the company also supplies water to parts of Derbyshire , Leicestershire , Warwickshire and Worcestershire . [5]
Performance
South Staffordshire Water was joint first with Anglian Water in Ofwat’s Service Incentive Mechanism ‘Satisfaction by Company’ survey 2012/13. [6]
The company were 99.91% compliant with drinking water quality tests carried out in 2012/13. [7]
Leakage performance was at 65.3 megalitres per day in 2012/13, compared to 68.2 Ml/d in 2011/12 and 72.8 Ml/d in 2010/11. [8]
The annual operational greenhouse gas emissions of the regulated business were 55.41 kilotonnes in 2012/13, compared to 61.61 ktC02e in 2011/12. [8]
Water sources
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Two of South Staffordshire Water's reservoirs supply 60% of water demand with the remainder provided by 69 boreholes. [9]
Reservoirs
- Barr Beacon Reservoir , Barr Beacon , Walsall , 52°34′32″N 1°54′41″W / 52.5756°N 1.91152°W / 52.5756; -1.91152
- Blithfield Reservoir , Abbots Bromley , Staffordshire 52°48′32″N 1°55′08″W / 52.809°N 1.919°W / 52.809; -1.919
- Chelmarsh Reservoir , Chelmarsh , Shropshire 52°29′07″N 2°23′35″W / 52.485334°N 2.393113°W / 52.485334; -2.393113
History
- 1853 South Staffordshire Waterworks Company is formed
- 1858 Opening of the works in Walsall. Wednesbury is the first area supplied
- 1860 Tipton and West Bromwich receive water supplies
- 1862 SSWC take over Dudley Waterworks. Netherton and Oldbury receive water supplies
- 1864 SSWC take over Burton Waterworks
- 1875 Cannock area supplied
- 1929 SSWC take over Kinver Waterworks.
- 1953 Blithfield Reservoir , Abbots Bromley near Rugeley , is opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
- 1962 SSWC take over Tamworth Water Works
- 1991 South Staffordshire Waterworks Company became a public limited company in 1991 and was listed on the London Stock Exchange as South Staffordshire Water.
- 1992 South Staffordshire Water Holdings (eventually South Staffordshire Group Plc) was created to grow non-regulated businesses.
- 1996 Blithfield Education Centre is opened by Bill Oddie
- 2004 South Staffordshire Group Plc (which became Homeserve Plc) de-merged South Staffordshire Plc, which included South Staffordshire Water, Echo, Rapid, Underground Pipeline Services and Aqua Direct, as a separate listed company on the London Stock Exchange.
- 2004 Acquired by Arcapita Bank , a Bahrain-based company, at a price of £11.20 per share (£237m including debt) and delisted from the Stock Exchange.
- 2007 Acquired by Alinda Infrastructure Fund, a European and American investor in infrastructure assets. [10]
- 2013 Acquired by KKR & Co. L.P. (formerly known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.), an American multinational private equity firm, specializing in leveraged buyouts, headquartered in New York.
- 2018 Acquired by Arjun Infrastructure Partners (AIP)
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References
- ↑ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Executive team" . Retrieved 2011-12-27 .
- ↑ "KKR to sell 75% equity stake in South Staffordshire plc" . Utility Week .
- ↑ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Company Details" . Retrieved 2011-05-30 .
- ↑ uSwitch, South Staffordshire Water.
- ↑ "Supply Area" . South Staffordshire Water . South Staffs Water . Retrieved 8 March 2019 .
- ↑ "Service Incentive Mechanism report" (PDF) . Ofwat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013 . Retrieved 24 September 2013 .
- ↑ "Preliminary Results 12/13" (PDF) . South Staffordshire Water. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013 . Retrieved 24 September 2013 .
- 1 2 "Key Performance Indicators 12/13" (PDF) . South Staffordshire Water. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013 . Retrieved 24 September 2013 .
- ↑ How your water is treated, South Staffordshire Water
- ↑ South Staffordshire Water PLC. "Alinda" . Archived from the original on 2009-03-07 . Retrieved 2011-05-30 .
- ↑ "South Staffordshire Water" . Heraldry of the World . Retrieved 11 February 2021 .
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