South West Water
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South West Water Services Limited is a water supply and sewerage utility company serving part of south west England. It was originally formed by the Water Act 1973 as one of ten regional water authorities formed by a merger of various statutory and local authority water undertakings. South West Water was privatised in 1989, and is part of the Pennon Group.
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[edit] History
The following public utilities were taken over by the South West Water Authority in 1973[1]:
- Cornwall River Authority
- Devon River Authority
- Avon and Dorset River Authority†
- Plymouth County Borough Corporation
- East Cornwall Water Board
- East Devon Water Board
- North and Mid Cornwall Water Board
- North Devon Water Board
- South Cornwall Water Board
- South West Devon Water Board
- West Cornwall Water Board
† Only the area of the authority which drained into the River Lim.
It was the subject of an episode of the fly-on-the-wall documentary Back to the Floor in 1997.
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[edit] References
- ^ The South West Water Authority Constitution Order 1973 (1973 No. 1307)
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