Yorkshire Water
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Yorkshire Water Services Limited is a water supply and teatment utility company servicing most of Yorkshire in northern England. The company has its origins in the Yorkshire Water Authority, one of ten regional water authorities created by the Water Act 1973, and privatised in 1989. The company has been part of the Kelda Group since 1999.
[edit] Area
The company's area includes West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, part of North Lincolnshire, most of North Yorkshire and part of Derbyshire. The area is adjoined on the north by that of Northumbrian Water, on the west by United Utilities, on the south west by Severn Trent Water and on the south by Anglian Water.
[edit] Constituents
The authority created in 1973 took over the following public sector water supply utilities:
- Barnsley Corporation
- Bradford Corporation
- Huddersfield Corporation
- Kingston upon Hull Corporation
- Leeds Corporation
- Rotherham Corporation
- Scarborough Corporation
- Sheffield Corporation
- Norton Urban District Council
- Rawmarsh Urban District Council
- Calderdale Water Board
- Claro Water Board
- Craven Water Board
- Doncaster and District Joint Water Board
- East Yorkshire (Wolds Area) Water Board
- Mid Calder Water Board
- Northallerton and the Dales Water Board
- Pontefract, Goole and Selby Water Board
- Rombalds Water Board
- Ryedale Joint Water Board
- Wakefield and District Water Board
and the
- Yorkshire River Authority
