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Thames Water Authority
Authority overview
Formed	1 April 1974
Preceding agencies	Metropolitan Water Board Numerous smaller water undertakers & river conservancies
Dissolved	1989
Superseding agencies	Thames Water National Rivers Authority

The Thames Water Authority was one of ten regional water authorities created in the UK on 1 April 1974 under the provisions of the Water Act 1973 to bring together all the water management functions of the region in one public body.

Predecessors

The bodies subsumed by the Thames Water Authority included the Metropolitan Water Board, the Thames Conservancy, the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board and parts of the Essex and Kent River authorities. It also took over water and sewage responsibility from the following water suppliers in the Thames catchment:

Colne Valley Water Company
Cotswold Water Board
Croydon Corporation
East Surrey Water Company
Epsom and Ewell Corporation
Lee Valley Water Company
Mid Southern Water Company
Middle Thames Water Board
Oxfordshire and District Water Board
Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Company
South West Suburban Water Company
Sutton District Water Company
Swindon Corporation
Thames Valley Water Board
Watford Corporation
West Surrey Water Board
Woking and District Water Company

Dissolution

In 1989 the Thames Water Authority was partly privatised, under the provisions of the Water Act 1989 with the water and sewage responsibilities transferring to the newly established publicly quoted company of Thames Water, and the regulatory, land drainage and navigation responsibilities transferring to the newly created National Rivers Authority which later became the Environment Agency.

References

^ "Water Act 1973", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1973 c. 37
"The Thames Water Authority Constitution Order 1973: Schedule 3", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1973/1360 (sch. 3)
"Water Act 1989", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1989 c. 15

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History	John Backhouse Joseph Bazalgette Edmund Colthurst Great Stink London sewer system London water supply Metropolitan Board of Works Metropolitan Water Board Hugh Myddelton William Chadwell Mylne New River Company New River John Snow William Webster 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
Major projects	Abingdon Reservoir Thames Tideway Scheme, including Thames Tideway Tunnel and Lee Tunnel Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works Thames Water Ring Main
Infrastructure	Abbey Mills Pumping Station Beckton Sewage Treatment Works Coppermills Water Treatment Works Cricklewood Pumping Station Crossness Pumping Station Crossness Sewage Treatment Works Deephams Sewage Treatment Works Greenwich pumping station Hampton Water Treatment Works Mogden Sewage Treatment Works Walton water treatment works
Reservoirs	Banbury Reservoir Bath Road Reservoir Bessborough Reservoir Chingford Reservoirs East Warwick Reservoir Farmoor Reservoir Grimsbury Reservoir High Maynard Reservoir Island Barn Reservoir Kempton Park Reservoirs King George V Reservoir King George VI Reservoir Knight Reservoir Lee Valley Reservoir Chain Lockwood Reservoir Low Maynard Reservoir Molesey Reservoirs Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir Queen Mary Reservoir Queen Mother Reservoir Stain Hill Reservoirs Staines Reservoirs Sunnyside Reservoir Tilehurst Water Tower Walthamstow Reservoirs West Warwick Reservoir William Girling Reservoir Wraysbury Reservoir

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