Description Each day we supply 532 million litres of drinking water from our 91 water treatment works along 13,870 kilometres of water mains to our customers’ taps.
We take nearly 70 per cent of the water from underground sources, called aquifers, 23 per cent from rivers and seven per cent from storage reservoirs.
Each day we also treat and recycle 717 million litres of wastewater at 365 treatment works after it is pumped through a network of 3,243 pumping stations and 39,594 kilometres of sewers.
We are owned by Greensands Investments Limited, a consortium made up of pension and infrastructure funds.
Southern Water has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 271 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Southern Water employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, Mining & Utilities industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 55% of employees would recommend working at Southern Water to a friend. This is based on 271 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
71% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Southern Water as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Southern Water.