What we do

Everyone tends to take a constant supply of clean water for granted, but somebody has to make sure it happens. Unlike most other companies, our product is not an optional extra. The essential nature of our services means we have a special obligation to behave responsibly in everything we do.

We bring the same sense of responsibility and inclusiveness to how we treat our employees. When you join Anglian Water, you are joining a company that will invest in your future because we believe that, as with our customers, this will be an ongoing relationship that will last over many years.

Our community

We are in the unique position of having every resident in the region as a customer, in addition to being one of the region’s largest employers, so we are committed to working with the community and reward employee involvement in community programs.

Just as we believe Anglian Water should be fully involved in its community, we encourage all sectors of the community to become involved with us, and aspire to recruit, train, and promote candidates from a wide diversity of backgrounds.

Our region

We offer the opportunity to work in an area which includes some of the most beautiful, unspoiled parts of Britain, including the Norfolk Broads, the UK’s largest protected wetland, and the highest proportion of Blue Flag beaches in England. Our region extends from the Humber in the north to the Thames in the south, and from Daventry in the west to Lowestoft in the east, making us geographically the largest water company within England and Wales.

Although our service area covers over 27,000 square kilometres of Britain’s driest region, we are totally committed to sustainable development. We have invested heavily in improving services such as our wastewater treatment and water quality testing capabilities. Providing our customers with over one billion litres of high-quality drinking water every day, we monitor its quality around the clock while maintaining both a network of water mains and 1077 sewage treatment plants, more per head than any other water company.

Our commitment to our region extends beyond activities related to the water supply. We also support The Anglian Water Trust Fund, a charitable trust devoted to relieving hardship within the Anglian Water region and The Flag Fen Archaeological Trust, which maintains one of the UK's most important Bronze Age sites.

We also maintain a birdwatching centre at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve. Our conservation efforts there recently resulted in the release of 10 osprey chicks, enabling ospreys to breed in England for the first time in 150 years.

Our world

Recognising that the world is bigger than the Anglian Water region, we also make direct contributions to charities working on a global scale in the areas of education, social regeneration, and the environment, such as Water Aid, which provides clean water and safe sanitation to the developing world. We also encourage our employees to register with RedR, an organisation that supplies frontline workers to provide humanitarian relief in disaster areas. In the last year Red R has sent three of our employees to Indonesia to help with tsunami relief.