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<p>Water infrastructure is funded through customer bills. Every five years, Ofwat
sets an overall cap on the total amount that each water company may recover from their
customers, through a process called the Price Review. As part of this process Ofwat
balances the interests of the consumers with the ability for companies to finance
the delivery of its services, including the removal of sewerage from homes and its
treatment.</p><p> </p><p>The current price review period runs from 2020-2025 and the
level of investment in this period is £51 billion. The average household bill is £448
in 2023-24, of which £233 is spent on sewerage services, which includes building and
maintaining sewer pipes, pumping sewage to treatment works, treatment, flowing cleaned
and treated wastewater back into rivers and the sea and converting solid material
from sewage into gas for energy.</p>
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