Metropolitan Water Board

Sectors:

  • Utility services Water supply & wastewater services

Notes:

Established in 1903 in order to consolidate the assets of nine businesses supplying water in London and to bring them under local authority control. The companies were New River Co, East London Waterworks Co, Southwark & Vauxhall Waterworks Co, Lambeth Waterworks Co, West Middlesex Waterworks Co, Lambeth Waterworks Co, Chelsea Waterworks Co, Grand Junction Waterworks Co and Staines Reservoirs Joint Committee. 1974 assets transferred to Thames Water Authority in another consolidation exercise. 1989 privatised as Thames Water Plc

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