London's water supply infrastructure has developed over the centuries in line with the expansion of London.
Fountain in Trafalgar Square
Chelsea Waterworks, 1752. Two Newcomen beam engines pumped Thames water from a canal to reservoirs at Green Park and Hyde Park.
Standpipe Tower at Brentford
The waterworks buildings at Hampton
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Thames Water Utilities Limited, trading as Thames Water, is a British private utility company responsible for the water supply and waste water treatment in most of Greater London, Luton, the Thames Va
London water supply infrastructure
…to the Thames Water Authority, before being re-privatised in the 1980s. Today, the population of Greater London is supplied by four private companies: Thames Water (76% of population), Affinity Water (14%), Essex and Suffolk Water (6.6%) and SES Water (3.7%). The London area is classified as "seriously water…
Thames Water's headquarters in Reading
Water pumping station at Walton-on-Thames
Chalk aquifer borehole under the North Downs at Albury, Surrey
Thames Water at work in Muswell Hill, London