Wonderful on Tap

We think water in its natural form is truly amazing and that's why we're so dedicated to protecting it.

As well as providing us with wonderfully fresh tap water, our regions rivers provide the perfect habitat to home an abundance of much-loved wildlife - including brown trout, otters and kingfishers to name but a few - so it's really important that we take of them.

That's exactly why we've committed to play a leading role in making our regions rivers healthier. To achieve this we've been working with both landowners (including farmers) and partner organisations such as the Environment Agency. Thanks to all the hard work our teams have done, we're very proud to say that our rivers are now the cleanest they've ever been! But we won't stop there - there's still lots more we can continue to do, to meet future environmental standards and support the health of our regions biodiversity.

As a responsible business, we also want to make sure that the way we work doesn't negatively impact on our environment in any way. We have a number of key focuses such as; reducing how much water we take from the environment, preventing the pollution of our water from harsh substances, and protecting our customers from the rising costs of energy that's needed to operate our treatment sites.

We’re embarking on one of the biggest nature projects across the UK, by boosting nature across 5000 hectares of land in the Severn Trent region by 2027 – in total that’s an area bigger than Gloucestershire! By doing this we’ll also be helping to deliver 1% of the government’s Nature Recovery Network of 500,000 hectares, as part of their 25 year Environment Plan.  

We're very lucky to have a region that is blessed with rich, diverse and beautiful landscapes and habitats, which are a vital partner to our reservoirs, treatment works and many pipelines.  Put simply, they capture, hold, clean, and carry your water until we need to take it. So, as you’d expect, we plan to look after these wonderful natural assets. Here’s a flavour of some of the things we’ll be doing as part of our environment commitments across our region: 

• Planting over 1.3 million trees by 2030
• Supporting the growth of more wildflower meadows
• Restoring moorland
• Bog and peatland restoration

To do this we’re going to continue to work with some of the most distinguished partners to deliver a range of projects to support the water cycle, these include; RSPB, Woodland Trust, National Trust, Rivers Trust and Moors for the Future.  

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