Day: 24 November 2010

Six water companies failed to meet their leakage reduction targets for 2009/10, Ofwat announced at the end of October. The regulator acknowledged that burst pipes from the one-in-thirty-year freeze that swept the country last winter played a significant role in the failures, but chief executive Regina Finn nevertheless warned that Ofwat now has the offenders in its sights and won't hesitate to take draconian measures if they don't get their acts together.