South East Water supplies top quality drinking water to 2.1 million customers in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.

Each day we supply 565 million litres of drinking water from our water treatment works along more than 14,000 kilometres of water mains to our customers’ taps. Our supply area covers 5,657 square kilometers. We take water from rivers, reservoirs and underground sources, called aquifers, under abstraction licences issued by the Environment Agency. We then treat it to the highest standards set by the Drinking Water Inspectorate.

South East Water merged with Mid Kent Water in December 2007 to bring together two key water companies in the South East of England into one company. The company is owned by Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund (HDF) and the unlisted Utilities Trust of Australia (UTA).

HDF invests in utility infrastructure assets and has more than 6,000 investors. UTA is an open-ended trust owned, in the main, by a number of Australian superannuation funds. Both are managed by Hastings Fund Management Ltd.