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‘Power from poo’ is jewel in the crown

One of the region’s leading FTSE companies has laid out its ambitions to be the UK’s best sustainable water and waste water company in the near future, a meeting of entrepreneurs was told.

Northumbrian Water Ltd’s (NWL) chief executive, Heidi Mottram, has set a course for the company which will see it aim to overhaul its competitors in the coming years across a range of indicators.

Speaking at the North East Chamber of Commerce’s (NECC) County Durham AGM, Mrs Mottram, said that NWL was already an industry leader in areas such as advanced anaerobic digestion – or ‘making power from poo’, as she described it.

Mrs Mottram said: “We are doing great. There are some things Northumbrian Water is already an industry leader at such as the treatment of sewage and quality of effluent that we put back into the streams and rivers of the county we are based in.

“Our safety record is good and we know from our invoices that at least 63% of the money we spend is in our local supply chain. I am fairly confident that the actual figure is in excess of 80%.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .