Water Supply and Treatment
Public perception is often that water supplies should be free! After all, the Company is only intercepting water that exists in the natural water cycle and supplying it to its customers!
In fact the abstraction of water from the environment and its treatment to ensure that it is safe to drink, is a technologically advanced process. It carries on for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so as to ensure that safe drinking water is always on tap.
In this section we outline the facilities which are used for abstracting raw water and the treatment processes which are used to convert it into drinking water.