Private company
Cambridge Water Company
British water company
Cambridge Water, a trading name of South Staffordshire Water plc, is a water supply utility company serving Cambridge and the surrounding area. The Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Company was established by the Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. xxiii). The Cambridge Water Company was privately owned until became a public limited company by the Cambridge Water Company (Constitution and Regulation) Order 1996 (SI 1996/713).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industrywater management1
- Websitewww.cambridge-water.co.uk
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Cambridge Water, a trading name of South Staffordshire Water plc, is a water supply utility company serving Cambridge and the surrounding area.2
Controversies and legal
Controversies
In 2022, Cambridge Water admitted that it failed to inform over a thousand of its customers that it had supplied water contaminated with four times the permitted amount of a 'forever chemical', known as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). People in the Stapleford and Great Shelford area received contaminated water supplies, derived from an aquifer near Duxford Airfield in June 2021. The water company refused to say how long customers had been receiving contaminated supplies, but stated that it had diluted water from that aquifer with water from other sources so as to lower the level of pollutant.
From Wikipedia’s article on Cambridge Water Company, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
Links
- Websitewww.cambridge-water.co.uk1
- WikipediaCambridge Water Company
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ5025619
Sources
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- 2WikipediaCambridge Water Company on Wikipedia
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- 4Wikimedia CommonsCambridge Water Company photo by Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0