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Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance for 2020

Annual reporting for 2020 on the environmental performance of the 9 water and sewerage companies, including the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA).

Applies to England

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There are 9 water and sewerage companies operating in England that provide clean (drinking) water and waste water (sewerage) services.

We regulate and work in partnership with them to ensure they protect and improve the environment.

We monitor their environmental performance throughout the year. Here we publish our annual assessment for the sector and individual company data reports.

For other reports, see the collection of Environment Agency data on business environmental performance.

Published 13 July 2021
Last updated 14 January 2022 + show all updates
  1. Updated the PDF 'Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance summary graphic 2020' to correct the data for total incidents for South West Water (225), Thames Water (292) and sector total (1715).

  2. Updated the PDF 'Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance summary graphic 2020' to correct the self reporting metric for South West Water, which is is amber 74%.

  3. First published.