Scottish Water

Scottish Water is a statutory corporation that provides water and sewerage services across Scotland. It is accountable to the public through the Scottish Government.

Operations

Scottish Water provides drinking water to 2.46 million households and 150,000 business customers in Scotland. Every day it supplies 1.34 billion litres of drinking water and takes away 847 million litres of waste water from customers' properties and treats it before returning it to the environment.

Regulated Services

Scottish Water operates under a regulatory framework established by the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 allowing an economic regulator, the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, to set the cost of the service independently. The Water Industry Commission for Scotland establishes the "lowest overall reasonable cost" through a benchmarking exercise with private water companies operating in England and Wales. Scottish Water has a right of appeal against this price setting process through a reference to the UK Competition Commission. In 2013-2014 the charge for an average household bill was around £334.

Scottish

Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:

  • Scottish people, a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland
  • Scots language, a West Germanic language spoken in lowland Scotland
  • Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic language native to Scotland
  • Scottish national identity, the Scottish identity and common culture
  • Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn), a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn known as the Scottish
  • Scotch whisky, a malt whisky or grain whisky made in Scotland
  • See also

  • Scotland (disambiguation)
  • Scots (disambiguation)
  • Scotch (disambiguation)
  • Scottian (disambiguation)
  • All pages beginning with "Scottish"
  • Scottish people

    The Scottish people (Scots: Scots Fowk, Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich), or Scots, are a nation and socially defined ethnic group resident in Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of two groups—the Picts and Gaels—who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century, and thought to have been ethnolinguistically Celts. Later, the neighbouring Cumbrian Britons, who also spoke a Celtic language, as well as Germanic-speaking Anglo-Saxons and Norse, were incorporated into the Scottish nation.

    In modern use, "Scottish people" or "Scots" is used to refer to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic origins are from within Scotland. The Latin word Scotti originally referred to the Gaels but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Though sometimes considered archaic or pejorative, the term Scotch has also been used for the Scottish people, though this usage is current primarily outside Scotland.

    There are people of Scottish descent in many countries other than Scotland. Emigration, influenced by factors such as the Highland and Lowland Clearances, Scottish participation in the British Empire, and latterly industrial decline and unemployment, resulted in Scottish people being found throughout the world. Large populations of Scottish people settled the new-world lands of North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. There is a Scottish presence at a particularly high level in Canada, which has the highest level per-capita of Scots descendants in the world and second largest population of descended Scots ancestry after the United States. They took with them their Scottish languages and culture.

    Scottish language

    Scottish language may refer to:

  • Scots language (Scots Leid), a Germanic language spoken in Lowland Scotland and Ulster
  • Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), a Celtic language native to Scotland
  • Scottish English, the varieties of English spoken in Scotland
  • Scottish Language, a peer reviewed journal of Scottish languages and linguistics, published by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies
  • See also

  • Languages of Scotland, the languages spoken or once spoken in Scotland
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    BBC News 23 Mar 2025
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    Second union announces strike at Scottish Water as pay talks break down

    AOL 14 Mar 2025
    Unite’s membership at Scottish Water is at the end of the road with the duplicitous behaviour of excessively paid executives ... “Unite will fully support our members in their fight for better jobs, pay and conditions at Scottish Water.”.

    Dumfries and Galloway Scottish Water workers to strike amid pay row

    Daily Record 14 Mar 2025
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    Scottish Water workers to take strike action

    AOL 13 Mar 2025
    Scottish Water staff are to take strike action later this month after pay talks broke down, with a union accusing the company of “gaslighting workers” ... Claire Greer, GMB Scotland organiser in Scottish Water, said.

    Waste heat in wastewater to provide district heat in Scotland

    New Power 13 Mar 2025
    A first project has been identified for development in Inverness, where a Scottish Water pumping station will provide a sustainable heat source for a network serving several buildings, including local ...

    Scottish Water workers to take strike action in pay dispute

    Daily Record 13 Mar 2025
    GMB Scotland claimed Scottish Water has reduced the terms of a pay offer already rejected by workers ... .

    Scottish local authorities fail to collect almost £2bn in unpaid council tax

    The Daily Telegraph 11 Mar 2025
    “The balance outstanding at January 1 2025, provided in response to a Freedom of Information request, was the total due at that date, inclusive of Scottish Water charges, up to March 31 2025.

    Police arrest man, 59, for manslaughter over fuel tanker smash after search fails to find ...

    The Daily Mail 11 Mar 2025
    Water can be seen flowing through the damaged hull of the Immaculate on Tuesday ... It was feared the Solong was packed with barrels of sodium cyanide, which had spilled into the water ... and in the water.

    Board Minutes 29th January 2025 (Scottish Water Ltd)

    Public Technologies 10 Mar 2025
    SCOTTISH WATER BOARD MEETING ... He explained that the contractor involved had sub-contracted the excavation, which was not permitted under the Framework Agreement with Scottish Water ... Scottish Water Ltd.

    SNP 'dangerously naïve' over stance on scrapping Trident, warns Tory MP | Daily Mail Online

    The Daily Mail 09 Mar 2025
    One of the Royal Navy’s Trident submarines ... Mr Gethins said ... Shadow Scottish Secretary Andrew Bowie said ... He said there needs to be ‘a rational, responsible and orderly approach to the removal of nuclear weapons from Scottish soil and Scottish waters’ ... .
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