The South Staffordshire Plc Group is a highly respected integrated services group of businesses. It operates two regulated water companies, South Staffs Water and Cambridge Water, that together serve 1.6m customers in the UK and has a range of complementary non regulated businesses that serve the water and adjacent sectors within its SSI Services and Echo divisions.

The Group also has a joint venture operating in the new non-household retail water market and a smaller business (Office Watercoolers) providing water cooler units and spring water to commercial customers.