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| num_employees = 2,000 | parent = YTL Corporation, of Malaysia | services = Water supply and sewerage services | homepage = }} Wessex Water Services Limited, known as Wessex Water, is a water supply and sewerage utility company serving an area of South West England, covering 10,000 square kilometres including Bristol, most of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire and Hampshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=What we do )〕 Wessex Water supplies 1.3 million people with around 285 million litres of water a day. It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991. The company currently employs about 2,000 employees.〔Wessex Water website http://www.wessexwater.co.uk/about/threecol.aspx?id=1666&linkidentifier=id&itemid=1666〕 Wessex Water is owned by the Malaysian power company YTL Corporation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Malaysian energy group YTL buys Wessex Water for £1.2bn )〕 It had been purchased by Azurix, an Enron-controlled company, in 1998. ==History== The company originated as the Wessex Water Authority, one of ten regional water authorities established by the Water Act 1973. Privatised, in 1989, Wessex Water Services Limited was purchased by Enron in July 1998 for $2.4 billion. Following that company's collapse Wessex Water was sold to YTL Power International of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2002. The company has its headquarters on the edge of Bath in Claverton Down, in a new energy efficient building by Bennetts Associates and Buro Happold.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Wessex Water Operations Centre )〕 The water authority acquired the assets and duties of a number of public sector and local authority water utilities: *Bristol Avon River Authority *Somerset River Authority *Avon and Dorset River Authority (except the part of the area of that drains to the River Lim) *Bath Corporation *Dorset Water Board *North Wilts Water Board *South Wilts Water Board *Wessex Water Board *West Somerset Water Board *West Wilts Water Board *Bournemouth and District Water Company † *Bristol Waterworks Company *Cholderton and District Water Company † *West Hampshire Water Company † *West Lulworth Water Undertaking 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wessex Water」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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