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Precautionary boil water notice in South Dartmoor and the Eastern outskirts of Plymouth.

‘Clean Sweep’ for Beer coastline

‘Clean Sweep’ Keeps Bathing Water Quality High

‘Striking the Right Balance’ - Water Price Review 2005 to 2010

£1.6 Million to safeguard Cornish coastline

£8 million finish for Teign Estuary shellfish project

100 foot rig arrives in Torbay

340 million making South West rivers England’s best

70,000 people in Plymouth are treated to better water this Christmas, as South West Water finish work on Mutley Plain

A 'Clean Sweep' for Sidmouth

A good site-better!

Ainsley Harriott asks you to cook up a birthday celebration

Ambition: energy brings region-wide employment opportunity

Award funds faster Cancer cure

Barnstaple Water Scheme

Bathing water results

Bathing water results are big boost for region South West Water's 'Clean Sweep' programme aids record results

Beautiful music that saves lives!

Best-ever bathing water results

Bob Baty honoured

Boscastle faces the final sweep!

Boscastle flooding

Brighter future for Beer coastline

Green week water day

Help for Boscastle fish farm

Helston kettles

Higher standards at Hope Cove

'Clean Sweep' for East Portlemouth

History in the Cornish Pipe Line!

Clean Sweep helps set new records in 'Good Beach Guide 2005'

If in doubt keep them out beware of bogus callers

Investing in people

Clean up helps put rivers top of the class

Joint venture

Cleanest quality drinking water

Closer to a cleaner coastline at Croyde

Karl Jenkins invited to Truro Cathedral to conduct The Armed Man in support of Wateraid!

Coast to clean water

Keen to be green

Life saving waterworks sale

Coldplay appeal to Glastonbury

Lynton & Lynmouth

Conservation area of River Camel is safeguarded

Considerate contractors clean coastal waters

Major burst water main

Conveyancing success sees business soar

Major honours for South West Water duo

Million £££ works!

Music flows for WaterAid

Cornish coastal waters are protected

Near perfection...

Croyde Outfall Pipe Progress

Croyde receives ‘Clean Sweep’ treatment

New homeowners become waterwise

Croyde scheme scoops Pennon Environmental Award

New super loos for Paignton Zoo

Crude sewage clean up

Newquay water customers asked for help

Nine million cleans Teign estuary tide

Cullompton sewerage improvements

OBE for RJB

Customer service improvements

Dawlish, Devon

OFWAT levels of service report

Do something completely different on the weekend!

Outstanding natural environment gets quality coastal waters

Over £4 Million invested on Newton Abbot's water main network

Draft Determination – Striking The Right Balance

East Devon Heath Conservation Project highly commended

Plans for a better westcountry

Exeter School to perform for world water charity

Extensive £8 million sewage investment is good news for Truro

Exton sewage transferred for treatment

Festive fat advice to stop drain misery

Final Determination – 'Striking The Right Balance' Price Review 2005 to 2010

First sewage system for Ebford

Foot and mouth

Free beauty fair services raise charity funds

Free water use workshops for cornwall businesses

From crude to cleanest more recommended beaches in South West than any other region

Go ahead for Croyde ‘Clean Sweep’

Go ahead for Torquay 'Clean Sweep' scheme

Bringing the Sparkle Back to the Heart of Bodmin

A 'Clean Sweep' as Devon and Cornwall bathing waters pass EU standards for the first time

A Sparkling Transformation in the Plymouth Pipe Line

Best ever results for South West beaches

Bringing the sparkle back to Bodmin

Cattedown - Salt Water Contamination

'Clean Sweep' approval for Sennen Cove and Porthcurno

Do Not Drink Notice - Pennsylvania, Beacon Heath, Stoke Hill

Do not drink notice REMOVED

Drinking Water Quality The Best Ever

Drought Plan/Current Water Resources

Exeter Concert for WaterAid

Exeter School in Concert for WaterAid!

Farmers of the South West - Lend us your Fields

Fat Is Clogging Up The Heart Of The Westcountry

Fireman train at sewage treatment works

Going for gold!

Good Beach Guide accolade

Good beach guide endorses 'Clean Sweep' performance

Good Beach Guide rates 97 per cent of the South West's beaches 'excellent'

Good news for south west water customers

Government water affordability pilot study statement

Great news for Dartmouth

Postgraduate qualification to improve South West Water service

Progress made to ensure cleaner coastal waters surround Start Bay Beaches

Putting the sparkle back from Newton Abbot to Torquay!

Putting the sparkle back into your water

Queen awards MBE to local waterman

Raiders challenge children to drink more tap water

Reed bed treatment for South Devon communities

Region’s renewable energy resources secured

Region’s schools receive water resource pack

Retired water radios like gold dust

Roadford burst main repaired

Roadshow brings waterwise success

Sea water clean-up for South Devon beaches

Seventy years of clean green power

Sewage upgrade protects shellfish estuary

Sewer flooding prevention project

Sidford sewer collapse

Slipping ahead

Something To Walk About!

South Devon village gets treatment upgrade

South West has highest number of beaches in the Good Beach Guide

South West hosts top composer at Remembrance Day concert

South West Water achieves OFWAT leakage performance level

South West Water launches specialist industrial training centre

South West Water puts in sparkling performance!

South west water responds to EA’s spotlight report

South West Water responds to Environment Agency ‘Spotlight’ report

South West Water Responds to Environment Agency 'Spotlight' Report

South West Water welcomes Consumer Council for Water

Statement on Plymouth City Council ASBO story

Student bird boxes aid conservation

Surfers celebrate clean coastline

SWW goes green with gas

SWW is celebrating...

Taw-Torridge tunnelled pipeline

Thank you for a job well done

The 2004 Price Review – Plans in Progress

The 2004 Price Review – Plans In Progress Ministerial Guidance - South West Water statement

The appliance of science wins major contract for South West Water's laboratories

The kids of Clapton get the guided tour!

The Uk’s First Sewage Gas Microturbine Generates Renewable Energy

Thousands of water supplies safeguarded

Torbay gets the ‘Clean Sweep’ treatment

Torpoint is sitting pretty thanks to South West Water!

Two new water directors

Village school wins £1,000 in regional competition

Villages go on-line

Washing for WaterAid on World Water Day

Water company achieves ISO standard

Water facts from the health wise

Water great prize!

Water in the school

Water investment boost for customers and environment

Water mains improvements

Water mains renovated in efficient and courteous manner

Water pipe advice as Winter comes

Water quality boosts Seaside Award potential

Water recycling revelation

Water saving man achieves MBE

Water supplies Green Energy

Water supplies will sparkle in Ilfracombe

Waterwise resident wins washing machine

Waterwise roadshow on tour

Website winner voices online opinion

West Exe protection project

World Water Day

World water day for Wateraid

Your online opinion at southwestwater.co.uk..

News from WaterAid - Local man joins WaterAid trip to Burkina Faso

Burst main, Exeter

Butts and composters bring environmental benefit

Charter Mark

Christmas diet

Industry leader on leakage

Littlehempston – Gets the Water Treatment Works

Majority of South West homes now on meters

New sewage treatment works approved for Helford

Ofwat confirms good news for South West water consumers

Ofwat Report - Water and Sewerage Charges 2006-07

Plans revealed for a better Boscastle!

Plymouth 36 inch diameter burst main - Haroldsleigh Avenue, Manadon

Plymouth gets even cleaner water

Putting the Twinkle Back in Tiverton's Water Supply

Service Plus: Quicker and better service for our customers

Sir John Evans Investigation

South Devon is Going to Sparkle

South West Water Backs Sport Relief

South West Water boost Westcountry water resources

South West Water Contractors Strike Gold

South West Water employee receives royal recognition

South West Water gets its PAWS stuck into Africa!

South West Water gets the go ahead to start work in Boscastle

South West Water helps highlight SpringWatch 2006

South West Water investment up 21 per cent

South West Water powers the west country with green energy!

South West Water provides first time sewage near Tarka Trail

South West Water puts the sparkle back in St Austell

South West Water raise £100,000 for WaterAid

South West Water Replaces Embankment Road Sewer

South West Water says farewell to Bob Baty and welcomes new chief executive

South West Water Win a Golden Green Apple Award

South West Water works hard to complete project ahead of Croyde's annual Oceanfest surfing event

SPORT RELIEF MILERS RUN ON UK TAP WATER

SWW gets its PAWS even deeper into Africa!

Water and sewerage charges 2007/08

Water companies supporting royal bid to ease rural housing crisis

WaterCare

Wise up to Water Conservation - Handy Hints and Tips

Woolacombe Bay – Rigging the Sunset

Work beings on Cornish sewage treatment work scheme

Making an existing green scheme even greener

St Agnes High-Tech Sewage Treatment Works

Going Underground?

Exeter's water network to receive £21 million boost

Adam Hart-Davis hosts regional World Water and Met Day events

Keeping The South West Picture Perfect

A Healthy Outlook for Water in the South West this summer

South West Water Appoints New Finance Director

SWW thanks the Bodmin community at end of major works

Getting Ready For Summer

South West Water puts the Sparkle Back into Villages on the River Avon

Devon and Cornwall's bathing waters are best in Europe - it's official.

Exeter contamination incident of February, 2006

Villagers Praise Works As Helford Gets Connected

South West Water backs pioneering environmental art trail

Summer Music To Make A Difference

Summer Rain Boosts Reservoir Levels

Mevagissey Sewers Protected Against Sea Water

Increasing the fish print and reducing the footprint

Roadford is spilling for the first time in 6 years

South West Water Supports Flood Relief

Green artist has a lotta of bottle(s)

A Trip into Exeter's Watery Past

SWW completes £6m investment to give Torbay state of the art water treatment facilities

A year aquatic - fundraising water themed calendar goes on sale

South West Water enters new era after Clean Sweep success

Bathing Water Quality Still High Despite Summer Deluge

Putting the Sparkle Back into St Ives

Investment floods into the region's water services

Sewers put on post Christmas diet

Minister praises South West Water's pioneering package to help customers

Wrap up warm for winter

New scheme receives Waterwise praise

Green scheme to be unveiled

Putting the Sparkle Back into the Barbican

Green guesthouse scoops award

Scheme to 'put the sparkle back' into Plymouth nears completion

Major Whitehall report highlights SWW's scheme

South West Water's scheme to put the sparkle back into Exeter nears completion

Improvement work to boost Heavitree's water quality continues

2008/09 Investment and Charges

Improvement works to boost Heavitree's water quality

New joint campaign to combat the conmen

Business as usual during improvement works

Co-ordinated effort on Heavitree works

Plans revealed to keep region in water for decades

South West Water triumphs at awards ceremony

Pennon Group Annual Results

Action against bogus caller crime

Heavitree lane closure to be lifted

Work to improve security of supply gets underway

Precautionary boil water notice in South Dartmoor and the Eastern outskirts of Plymouth.

Two new lakes help to secure Cornwall's water supply

Anchors aweigh for tall ships contest

Hit the environmental art trail this summer

SWW submits its draft Business Plan for 2010-15

Visit the country's first hydro electric power station

Step back into Exeter's watery past

Heavy rainfall boosts reservoir levels

Water sports fun on tap at new reservoir

Waste means prizes for artists

Winners with tall tales to tell

Outland Road scheme draws to a close

Burst water main in South Brent area ***UPDATE***

Big Investment In Looe

South West Water Supplier Awards

Utility Awards shortlist announced

Outland Road works come to an end

Annual fundraising calendar goes on public sale

Wet weather dampens bathing water results

South West Water achieves the 'gold standard'

Review of water and sewerage charging

South West Water 'on course' despite economic storms

Ecologist has high hopes for new role

Sidford sewer collapse

So you think repairing a burst main is simple!

Not when the pipe in question is surrounded by other service pipes including those for gas, electricity, telecommunications and water. An intriguing problem for South West Water to solve at Sidford near Sidmouth.

For further information please contact Hilary Weatherley, Corporate Communications Manager on 01392 443035.

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