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www.unitedutilities.com

United Utilities is the UK's largest listed water company. They own, operate and maintain utility assets, including water, wastewater, electricity and gas. They're a FTSE 100 company with a turnover of £2 billion and are the UK's market leader in utility outsourcing.

United Utilities was Business in the Community's Company of the Year 2009.

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United Utilities and ScottishPower - Grow Your Future Workforce

Grow Your Future Workforce is a collaboration between business and education. It involves two major employers, United Utilities and ScottishPower, working with schools and colleges throughout the northwest and aims to create a new generation of young engineers who will take up careers in the electricity industry, where currently there is a skills shortage at every level.
United Utilities – United Futures

United Futures combined Groundwork’s community expertise with United Utilities’ resources to build local communities through work-placements, volunteering events and major environmental projects whilst building strategic business partnerships.
United Utilities - Silver Jubilee Big Tick

United Utilities (UU) owns and operates water, waste-water, electricity and gas networks predominantly in North West England, but also throughout the UK and overseas. It employs more than 8,000 people and has a turnover in excess of £2billion. United Utilities longstanding commitment to sustainability has been particularly focussed on the environment and on education.
United Utilities – Integrating carbon

United Utilities is integrating carbon into traditional business activities and working with the water sector to improve its overall climate impact.
United Utilities - Enzymic Hydrolysis

United Utilities has developed a revolutionary new technique for the treatment of sludge, creating a sustainable approach to the management of waste.
United Utilities – Innovation to eco-efficiency

United Utilities is leading the way in environmental management, with an integrated carbon management system, innovative and sustainable use of waste and support for employees and customers for managing their own environmental impact.
United Utilities - efficiently leading in the environment

To ensure the delivery of its carbon reduction targets, UU has invested significantly in combined heat and power (CHP) projects to increase production by 80%, and is also working with its suppliers to measure and manage their carbon emissions.
United Utilities – Embedding carbon management

United Utilities' (UU) carbon management programme covers all May Day Pledges from measuring and reporting to engaging customers. UU recognise in order to truly move to low carbon operations it is crucial to embed carbon reduction into key management processes and decisions, enabling staff at all levels to contribute.
United Utilities – Sustainable Supply Chain

United Utilities, set itself a target of improving supply chain performance across 12 sustainability focus areas; 3 social and 9 environmental.
United Utilities – Tap into Water

United Utilities Tap into Water campaign demonstrated the environmental and cost benefits of choosing the region’s tap water over bottled.
Lancaster University Management School Award for Leadership for Sustainability

Sustainability leadership is crucial to United Utilities, a business which relies on natural resources to deliver services.
United Utilities Plc - Sustainable Catchment Management (SCaMP): Example of Excellence

United Utilities’ Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (SCaMP) was the first initiative to restore and enhance water catchment and introduce more sustainable land management practices in upland farming areas. The programme has worked with tenant farmers to improve raw water quality and secure tenant farmers’ income in the North West as well as improve the condition of a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
United Utilities: Delivering Value

United Utilities is delivering value to its stakeholders through environmental leadership and embedded environment as ‘business as usual’.

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Climate Change: Wealth of opportunities

As a region, England's Northwest has a vision to lead the way on climate change. Many Northwest businesses are already taking significant action, others are just setting out on the journey, but the destination is clear and there is much that companies can learn from each other along the way.

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