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Our environmental KPIs

Category 1 pollution incidents

Pollution incidents with a serious, extensive or persistent impact on the environment, people or property.

Zero

incidents

Spills reduction

Reducing the total number of activations at combined sewer overflows.

47%

reduction in spills versus 2020 baseline

Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions

One of two near-term science-based targets (SBTs) to reduce emissions by 2030 from the level in the base year of 2019/20.

13%

reduction since 2019/20

Our social KPIs

Trustpilot

An open, independent, online review platform for customer service.

4.5

Excellent

Customers supported with affordability

Customers that have benefitted from our range of affordability support schemes.

422,041

customers supported

Colleague engagement

Level of colleague engagement as measured by our annual colleague opinion survey.

90%

colleague engagement

Our governance KPIs

Capital programme delivery incentive (CPDi)

Measures the extent to which we have delivered our capital projects efficiently, on time, and to the required quality standard.

100%

CPDi

Community investment

Total community investment as measured by the Business for Societal Impact (B4SI) method.

£3.84m

total community investment

Performance across a range of trusted investor indices

Company performance relative to water and utilities sector participants in a selection of trusted investor ESG ratings and indices.

Upper quartile

performance

Our EU taxonomy assessment

We have undertaken a voluntary assessment of how we align with the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities.

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