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Yorkshire Water Yorkshire Water is considering plans to shed up to 100 jobs at its Bradford-based water supplies business. 06-Feb-2008 Yorkshire Water is planning to spend £55m upgrading the Esholt sewage treatment works over the next three years. 02-Dec-2005 Yorkshire Water is to invest £1.5bn in upgrading its water mains and treatment works over the next five years. 29-Mar-2005 Yorkshire Water has approved a scheme from the Able Partnership to set up a fish farm and caviar production facility on a 14-hectare site in Caldervale, Wakefield. 05-Jan-2004 Yorkshire Water has won a £40m contract from the Ministry of Defence to provide water and waste services in Wales, the south-west and parts of the Midlands. 13-Dec-2002 Yorkshire Water is testing vegetable oil as a new fuel to power its sludge-burning incinerator at Cooper Bridge near Huddersfield, in order to cut energy costs and reduce the use of fossil fuels. 20-Sep-2001 Yorkshire Water is to invest £60m in improvements to the water supply in Bradford over the next four years, starting with the £10m upgrade of the Chellow Heights water treatment works. 12-Jul-2001 Yorkshire Water has appointed Gleeson to build its western area wastewater schemes, in a £75m five-year programme. 05-Jul-2000 Kelda is planning to sell Yorkshire Water's physical assets to a customer-owned mutual company for about £2.4bn, in order to help it finance a large investment programme. 15-Jun-2000 Yorkshire Water has announced plans to invest £450m improving water quality and updating the sewage system of Yorkshire, including a new £75m sewage treatment plant at Selby. 31-Mar-2000 Kelda, formerly known as Yorkshire Water, has completed the £363m acquisition of Aquarion, the Connecticut water supplier, and is now seeking further acquisitions in the eastern US. 11-Jan-2000 Yorkshire Water is to cut 500 of its 2,700 staff over the next year, in response to price cuts ordered by the industry regulator. 08-Dec-1999 Yorkshire Water is to close its York Waterworks headquarters in York and transfer up to 30 staff to Bradford. 01-Oct-1999 Yorkshire Water has formed a consortium with BICC and Earth Tech Engineering that will work on a £80m waste water treatment project at a number of locations in Scotland. 04-Aug-1999 Yorkshire Water is planning to build a £12m drinking water treatment plant at Skidby. 09-Jul-1999 Yorkshire Water is to acquire Aquarian Company of Connecticut for £278m, making it the first UK group to buy a quoted US water supply company. 02-Jun-1999 Yorkshire Water is applying for planning permission to build a £12m water treatment plant at Keldgate, near Cottingham. 02-Apr-1999 Waste Recycling has completed its merger with Yorkshire Water's Global Waste Management operation, and is also buying 3C Holdings from Yorkshire, thereby creating one of the UK's leading waste management groups. 28-Jan-1999 Yorkshire Water is to acquire York Waterworks, the supplier of water in the York area, for £34m. 23-Jan-1999 Yorkshire Water has begun building a £28m 10MW wood-fuelled power station at Eggborough, North Yorkshire. 12-Dec-1998 Yorkshire Water has acquired Biochem Group, the Dutch environmental testing concern, for £15m. 27-Oct-1998 Yorkshire Water is acquiring 3C Waste from Cheshire county council for £120m. 03-Sep-1998 Waste Recycling is acquiring Yorkshire Water's refuse management business in an all-share deal that will give Yorkshire a 46% stake in the enlarged group. 18-Aug-1998 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008