Asda Environmental Leadership Award

Climate change is the biggest challenge Anglian Water faces. More extreme weather events, twinned with regional population growth, are already having an impact.

Anglian Water is reducing their carbon footprint by focusing on energy efficiency and investing in renewable energy. They are also putting innovative adaptation measures in place that bring real benefits to the environment. One example of this is a £115 million expansion of their treatment works at Rutland Water to meet an increasing demand from a growing regional population, the biggest single investment since privatisation.  As part of this investment Anglian Water created 90 hectares of new habitat to protect wildlife.

Anglian Water have a responsibility to protect wildlife and habitats that exist in our region and have therefore reintroduced ospreys to England after an absence of 150 years and reintroduced the native pool frog after it had become extinct in the UK.

In 2009, Anglian Water published and distributed their own field guide book. Employees are actively engaged in the protection of wildlife with new sightings being reported.