{"id":"uk-water-bills","title":"UK Water & Sewerage Bills by Company (2025/26)","description":"The average annual household water and sewerage bill for every appointed combined water company in England & Wales for 2025/26, with the previous year for context and the £ and % increase. Published by the industry body Water UK and echoed by the regulator Ofwat.","url":"https://gerahome.com/data/uk-water-bills","csvUrl":"https://gerahome.com/data/uk-water-bills/sample.csv","coverage":"England & Wales — 11 combined water + sewerage companies","spatialCoverage":"England and Wales","temporalCoverage":"2025/26","rowCount":11,"rowUnit":"water companies","provenance":{"source":"Water UK — Annual average bill changes 2025-2026","sourceUrl":"https://www.water.org.uk/annual-average-bill-changes-2025-2026","publisher":"Water UK","licence":"Public-interest reference figures (Water UK / Ofwat)","licenceUrl":"https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/average-bills-2025-26-press-statement/","attribution":"Source: Water UK annual average bill changes 2025-2026, echoed by Ofwat.","asOf":"April 2025 (2025/26 charging year)","modified":"2026-06-18"},"methodology":"Figures are the average annual household bill (water + sewerage) as published by Water UK for each appointed combined company, cross-verified against multiple independent republications on the fetch date. Only the 11 combined water + sewerage companies are included; water-only companies are excluded where secondary sources disagreed on the base figure. A real bill varies with metered usage, property band and any social tariff.","keyFigures":[{"label":"National average","value":"£603","note":"2025/26, up 26%"},{"label":"Highest bill","value":"£703","note":"Southern Water"},{"label":"Lowest bill","value":"£506","note":"Northumbrian Water"},{"label":"Companies","value":"11"}],"columns":[{"name":"company","description":"Appointed water + sewerage company"},{"name":"region","description":"Area served (plain English)"},{"name":"bill2025","description":"Average annual bill 2025/26, GBP"},{"name":"increase","description":"Year-on-year £ increase"},{"name":"pctIncrease","description":"Year-on-year % increase (as published)"}],"sampleRows":[{"company":"Southern Water","region":"South East England","bill2025":703,"increase":224,"pctIncrease":47},{"company":"South West Water","region":"South West England","bill2025":686,"increase":166,"pctIncrease":32},{"company":"Wessex Water","region":"South West / Wessex","bill2025":669,"increase":113,"pctIncrease":20},{"company":"Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water","region":"Wales","bill2025":639,"increase":136,"pctIncrease":27},{"company":"Thames Water","region":"London & Thames Valley","bill2025":639,"increase":151,"pctIncrease":31},{"company":"Anglian Water","region":"East of England","bill2025":626,"increase":99,"pctIncrease":19},{"company":"Yorkshire Water","region":"Yorkshire","bill2025":602,"increase":136,"pctIncrease":29},{"company":"United Utilities","region":"North West England","bill2025":598,"increase":112,"pctIncrease":23}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraHome; cite the original publisher above."}