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Jersey Water Bursary Award Success Jersey Water is pleased to announce that their Bursary Award for 2016 has been awarded to Rachel Hayden.  Formally Head Girl at Jersey College for Girls, Rachel will be studying Civil Engineering at the University of Bath.  Whilst studying for her A Levels, Rachel ran a global female engineering competition […]

Diabetes Screening Tests In the wake of recent media reports that more than 2,000 Islanders might be unaware that they have diabetes, a local company has arranged for its staff to have free screening checks. Jersey Water staff selected Diabetes Jersey as their charity to support for 2016, so the Company has offered all its […]

Jersey Water is accelerating its meter replacement programme following an increase in the number of leaks. Leaks are more common at this time of year but the company has identified that certain meter installations are more prone to leakage. These leaks are predominately under pavements and streets and have no impact on meter readings or […]

The Emergency Road Works were completed on Tuesday 6th September and the road re-opened at 4pm.  We would like to thank everyone for their patience whilst we undertook these essential repairs.   Following a mains water burst at the junction of St. Clements Road, Grève d’Azette and Havre des Pas traffic control measures have been […]

Jersey Water is inviting members of the Jersey farming community and members of the ‘Action for Cleaner Water’ group to visit its main treatment works. This invitation is exclusively for all Jersey Farmers and members of the group, ahead of a planned open day for the general public. Jersey Water will provide a guided tour around the main […]

Jersey Water is inviting the public to come and find out more about our business in aid of local charity Diabetes Jersey. You will be able to have a guided tour which will include a behind the scenes look at the water treatment station, first opened in 1931. After the tour you can enjoy refreshments, home made cake […]

The States of Jersey has published the Water management plan for Jersey. The protection of the islands water supplies is of critical importance to us, we are supportive of the islands government and farmers in dealing with the issues in a proactive manner. Jersey Water will continue to work with the farming community to protect water supplies so that we […]

Jersey Water employees this morning found remains of a body at Handois reservoir. The employees were completing routine maintenance work when the discovery was made. They immediately informed the Police who have subsequently secured the site as they conduct their investigation. Helier Smith, Chief Executive Officer, said “this is clearly a distressing time for our […]

The Minister for the Environment, Deputy Steve Luce, has agreed Jersey’s Water’s application for a ‘dispensation’ to allow the pesticide Oxadixyl to exceed the Jersey legal limit in Island mains water but still remains well below health based limits, if necessary. The regulatory limit for Oxadixyl in treated water is 0.1 Micrograms per litre (ug/l) […]

Jersey Water is preparing to bring Val De La Mare reservoir back in to service after five months following the discovery in February of pesticide Oxadixyl in streams feeding the reservoir.  To enable the water from Val De La Mare to be used over the summer, the company has applied for a temporary dispensation under […]