Severn Trent to open pipes to competition
- From: Vol 5, Issue 11 (November 2004)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: United Kingdom
- Related Companies: Aqua Resources, Severn Trent Water and Watergrid
The ombudsman has forced the firm to let a competitor use its pipes to reach a customer; but elsewhere efforts to introduce competition are going slowly.
The effort to introduce competition into the UK water industry received a boost after the parliamentary ombudsman backed a small company in the Midlands that is trying to use Severn Trent’s pipelines to supply customers from its own boreholes.
Severn Trent refused to give Aqua Resources access to its network because the company did not have a licence to ...
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