Ofwat

British

/ ˈɒfˌwɒt /

noun

Office of Water Services: a government body set up in 1989 to regulate the activities of the water companies in England and Wales, and to protect the interests of their consumers

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It is also creating a chief engineer role at the regulator that will be set up to replace Ofwat.

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Ofwat, is currently the water industry's economic regulator for both England and Wales.

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In October 2025 the Welsh government said that when Ofwat is abolished it plans to form its own stand-alone economic regulator to replace it.

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Up to 30,000 properties in the south of England had no water last week, at the height of the issues, which prompted a first-of-its-kind investigation into SEW by regulator Ofwat.

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It has already vowed to abolish the existing regulator Ofwat and replace it with a new watchdog.

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