Water and Sewage

Learn about water and sewage charges in your area. Articles explain billing, conservation tips, metering options, and your consumer rights with water companies.

Alternative Supplies

The privatisation of the water and sewage supplies differed from many of the other privatisations in the 1980s and 1990s as the second stage, deregulation to...

Background to the Privatisation of Water

This article looks at the run-up to the privatisation of water and sewage services in the England and Wales in 1989. As is touched on in our article in the O...

Having Difficulty Paying Your Water Bill

In the article in our Overview section we gave some general advice on problems with bills and a few facts about water bills. Here we will go into more detail...

Saving, Reusing and Cutting Water Costs

The three key words for saving any valuable resource are reduce, reuse and recycle, and they apply to water as much as anything else on the 'green' agenda. T...

Smart Meters in Every British Household?

The government has announced that smart meters will be installed in every home in the UK by 2020, but what is a smart meter and who will be paying for it? Wh...

Water Meters and Rates

Water meters, for domestic consumers at least, have only been around for a couple of years, basically since the service was privatised. Prior to that househo...

What Utilities You Are Paying For

Most people in the country pay water rates or bills but it's unusual for anyone to think about the different supplies or services that make up the bill. Obvi...