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What's new
- OBM 01/10: Ofwat Board minutes - meeting held 25 January 2010
- OBM 10/09: Ofwat Board minutes - meeting held 10 December 2009
- OBM 09/09: Ofwat Board minutes - meeting held 19 November 2009
- Bulk supply pricing – a consultation on our policy principles
- New appointments and variations – a consultation on our policy
- New appointments and variations – a consultation on our process
About Ofwat
Our job is to make sure that your water company provides you with a good quality service at a fair price.
We do this by:
- keeping bills for consumers as low as possible
- monitoring and comparing the services the companies provide
- scrutinising the companies’ costs and investment
- encouraging competition where this benefits consumers
If a company falls short of what we or customers expect we take the action necessary to protect consumers’ interests, which may include legal steps such as enforcement action and fines.
As the economic regulator of the water industry in England and Wales we work closely with a wide range of other stakeholders. These include the water quality regulators (the Environment Agency and the Drinking Water Inspectorate) and the Consumer Council for Water.
