New River Company
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The New River Company, formally The Governor and Company of the New River brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London, was a privately owned water supply company in London, England, originally formed a
Sir Hugh Myddelton, founder of the New River Company
Sir John Backhouse, a founding member of the New River Company. The Round Pond, the company's first reservoir, can be seen in the painting he rests his hand on.
Thames Water
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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
New River Company
…which was paid in "water stock", paying a 3% annual dividend. Through municipalization the New River Company became a direct ancestor of the current Thames Water company, the main water supplier to London today. Over the 292 years since Myddelton divided his holding in the New River Company into shares, and…
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