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Water company Severn Trent was warned yesterday that it faced having to lower bills as punishment for failures which added pounds 42m to customer charges. As well as returning the money to customers - equivalent to between pounds 2 and pounds 3 a year on the average bill by 2009-10 - watchdog Ofwat said the interim findings of its inquiry were 'sufficiently serious' to merit a further reduction in price limits.
Ofwat also said it had taken the 'unprecedented step' of alerting the Serious Fraud Office to certain issues after it found Severn Trent Water provided it with data that was either 'deliberately miscalculated or poorly supported'.See the full content of this document
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Water Company Warned Over Charges
Severn Trent, which has around...
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