4827 x 3494 px | 40,9 x 29,6 cm | 16,1 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
24 settembre 2022
Altre informazioni:
Yorkshire Water is a water supply and treatment utility company servicing West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, part of North Lincolnshire, most of North Yorkshire and part of Derbyshire, in England. The company has its origins in the Yorkshire Water Authority, one of ten regional water authorities created by the Water Act 1973, and privatised under the terms of the Water Act 1989, when Yorkshire Water plc, the parent company of the Yorkshire Water business, was floated on the London Stock Exchange. The parent company was Kelda Group in 1999. In February 2008, Kelda Group was bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds. It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991 Yorkshire Water has received fines for breaches of environmental law. For example: Yorkshire Water was fined twice in April 2007. The first offence was for allowing polluting matter to enter Clifton beck in Brighouse, contrary to section 85(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991. The final incident killed one third of the wildlife along over a mile of the stream Yorkshire Water was fined £6, 000 and ordered to pay £9, 051 in costs for supplying "unfit water" in May 2006 in a prosecution brought by the Drinking Water Inspectorate, Yorkshire Water's largest fine, of £119, 000 (reduced to £80, 000 on appeal), with costs of £125, 598, was received in December 2000 after pleading guilty to seventeen charges of supplying water unfit for human consumption
