Cambridge Water Company
It was established by the Cambridge University and Town Waterworks Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict.c. xxiii) and was privately owned until it became a public limited company in 1996.In 2022, Cambridge Water admitted that it failed to inform over a thousand of its customers that it had supplied water contaminated with four times the permitted amount of a 'forever chemical', known as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS).People in the Stapleford and Great Shelford area received contaminated water supplies, derived from an aquifer near Duxford Airfield in June 2021.This article about a service company in the United Kingdom is a stub.
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