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Macquarie Asset Management has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Southern Water’s parent company, Greensands Holdings.

Following the electrical fault at our pumping station near to our Swalecliffe wastewater treatment works yesterday, we have undertaken regular monitoring and sampling of the entire water course from pumping station all the way to the sea.

A system fault at our Brook Road Swalecliffe Wastewater Pumping Station has resulted in wastewater leaving our Brook Pumping station and entering a nearby brook.

A system fault at our Swalecliffe Wastewater Treatment Works has resulted in wastewater leaving our Brook Pumping station and entering a nearby brook.

The latest update on our work to fix the burst sewer in Hastings.

Southern Water has increased the size of its leakage team and is employing new tools and techniques to find and fix leaks as the South East faces a future of more people and less water. This is part of the organisation's commitment to halve leakage by 2050

Statement from CEO Ian McAulay:

I am deeply sorry for the historic incidents which have led to today’s sentencing and fine. I know that the people who rely on us to be custodians of the precious environment in southern England must be able to trust us. What happened historically was completely unacceptable and Southern Water pleaded guilty to the charges in recognition of that fact.

Southern Water is in court this week for the sentencing hearing in relation to the Environment Agency’s prosecution of the company for historic offences under the Water Resources Act and the Environmental Permitting Regulations which happened between 2010 and 2015.

We continue to assist with this pollution event and to work extremely hard in an area of the River Test to contain oil spilled by a third party from the nearby Industrial estate. Our priority is to continue to mitigate against the environmental impact this third party pollution may have.