Green Recovery

We are delighted to share with you our first dedicated Green Recovery report which provides an update on our progress to enhance our regions environment and better serve our customers and communities. 

Life beyond the pandemic

In July 2020, the government along with our regulators penned a letter to water companies inviting the water sector to play their part in the country’s Green Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a socially purposeful company, we were keen to get involved and recognised the role we can play in helping to meet the economic and social challenges that our country faces – so we started talking to our customers and got working on plans right away. 

£565m investment
2,500 jobs
2 UK first projects

In July this year, Ofwat published their final determination which included £566m for Severn Trent, enabling us to deliver long-term, sustainable benefits for current and future generations in our region.

This includes improving the environment, creating over 2,500 jobs, enhancing our regions skills and ultimately, saving our customers money in the long term.

The Green Recovery will enable Severn Trent to lead the way in a number of projects, many of which will be a first for the UK. 

Our Projects will tackle long-term issues that we know are important to our customers. The Green Recovery projects will: