A water firm has stated it would pay £10 to every of its prospects after it under-reported leakages.

Welsh Water says each buyer will obtain the rebate following an inside assessment.

The assessment discovered "governance and management oversight failures" which meant leak figures had been larger than beforehand reported.

The quantity of water used per buyer was decrease than first reported.

The firm serves households in most of Wales, Herefordshire and elements of Deeside.

It stated it would credit score the £10 onto the accounts of its 1.3 million family and 100,000 enterprise buyer accounts within the coming months, costing it round £14m in whole.

Welsh Water has stated it would additionally allocate an additional £54m to tackling water leakages over the subsequent two years.

The precise whole leakage for 2021/22 was 240.3ml per day in comparison with 157.4ml per day as was beforehand reported by the corporate, which equates to eight.6 m3 per km of predominant per day.

Pete Perry, chief government officer, stated modifications have been made to how leakages are reported by the corporate.

"We are very sorry and disappointed that this has happened," he stated.

"Whilst our robust assurance process ultimately identified the issue, there were failures in our governance and management oversight processes that allowed this in the first place.

"We have made the mandatory modifications to how we handle leakage reporting and closed the gaps in our reporting and governance processes."

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The regulator Ofwat is reviewing proof supplied to it by Welsh Water earlier than it decides whether or not additional investigation is required.

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