United Utilities Group Plc engages in the provision of water and wastewater services. The firm is engaged in providing water and wastewater services in the Northwest of England. The company collects its water from a range of different sources, but predominantly from its reservoirs in the Pennines and the Lake District. The company extracts water from Lake Vyrnwy in Wales for customers in Merseyside and Cheshire, while the rest is taken from the River Dee, boreholes and streams. The company collects and treats wastewater from three million homes and 200,000 businesses from as far north as Carlisle all the way down to Crewe. Cumbria’s Thirlmere and Haweswater are its reservoirs. Haweswater holds more than 84,800 million liters of water. The company owns and manages over 56,000 hectares of land. The majority of this land surrounds its reservoirs. The company operates over 79,000 kilometers of wastewater pipes to transport wastewater from sewers to one of its 584 wastewater treatment works. The company supplies about 1.8 billion liters of water every day.
