Portsmouth Water supplies clean drinking water to an area which covers 868 square kilometres. The area covered by the Company stretches through Hampshire and West Sussex from the River Meon in the West to the River Arun in the East.
Area supplied: 868 square kilometres
Population: 740,000
Number of water sources: 21 (1 group of springs, 1 river, 19 borehole sites)
Number of service reservoir sites: 30
Number of treatment works: 21
Length of mains: 3,387 kilometres
Number of properties supplied: 324,000
Water samples taken for analysis: 12,000 per year
Annual income: £45.4 million
Number of employees: 262
Average daily distribution input: 183 million litres per day
Average cost per household approximately 2023/2024: £0.321 per day/£117.25 per year
Last updated: July 2023