Southern Water Recenzje 

I was totally gobsmacked when I recived my water bill , how can southern water justify a 47% increase it’s absolutely disgusting, where do they think we are going to find the money? it’s a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul

entire customer experience and website it soooooo incredibly bad, it ranks in line with british Airways, it's unreal, i cannot log in, cannot change my password, links are broken, unbelieveable.

Watch Channel 4 "Dirty Business." All about the water companies dumping raw sewage into our waterways and the sea. Also shows the Environment Agency being complicit in this. SHOCKING TO THE CORE.

Criminal extraction, decades paying profits to shareholders while the infrastructure fails, now they nearly double everyone's water bill to maintain shareholder dividends, literally taking food from children's mouths! The CEO is receives a £7 million annual salary, the business posts £97 million profits last year. Call the call centre and it's outsourced to Africa, go to the Dashboard and the dates are wrong, they send pay now messages for balances that are already paid.

Incapable of understanding English in their S African call centres, who give wrong information : Put on hold but do not resolve anything. : inadequate information on bills : give a false timeframe to reply to emails but NEVER achieve it !! : any emails from them are not accurate

Throughout the last four and half months I have had numerous phone calls and emails with Southern Water. Never have they replied to my emails within 5-days, their customer service promise. On the three occasions I phoned, they never did what they said they would do to resolve the issue of incorrect billing.

This is not a complicated story, I moved in to a new build in October, Southern Water had the wrong meter number. After sending an engineer in November, they agreed the water meter number I had was correct, theirs was not. But being hung up on the idea my meter had been replaced, they continued to bill me for another flats use. After a letter to their complaints department, they adjusted my account to my meter number and meter readings at the end of January.

I am one of eight flats, the other occupiers are going through the same process because Southern Water would only attend when individual account holders reported a problem. Some people are only being charged for sewerage and not water, others are not being charged at all, and some, like me, were being charged for another flats water.

My next battle is get the direct debit amount to reflect my usage and not an arbitrary amount that is three times what I am billed for.

Increased my bill from £45 to £122. Sent a complaint to Rickie Murphy from Head office who has totally ignored my complaint sending me the generic automated response as last time. Sent a document regarding, getting help if you can't/won't pay the bill. I know we don't use the water they are suggesting and have done the stupid tap test a number of times. I keep telling them that there must be another reason but they aren't interested. I'm also meant to be on a reduced rate, they sent me a letter days before confirming the reduced rate!!
They used to charge me for the neighbours water too so I have zero faith in them.
I know there's an issue!!! He has just ignored my concerns, not even mentioned the bill or payment options. I also contacted customer services who have also ignored my email. They couldn't give a toss. As an autistic/ADHD, severely depressed adult this is pushing me over the edge and they don't give a damn. I'm happy to agree a monthly sum, nowhere near there suggested amount but they have ignored that but they should also be investigating my complaint!! Absolute a- holes!! Tell you what, stop providing water to our house!!

Trying to pay the water bill, even then their website doesn't work.

This company are dangerous to the public it would be better if they just declared bankrupsy and just like ofwat disapear from jobs they clearly are not capable of carrying out. Instead of just stealing public money in what is agreed by everyone as being in a cost of living crisis. I would urge the government to take this company back into public ownership.

I have been chasing Southern water since August 2025 after finding out l have been paying for my neighbours water the last 14 years! a water meter was fitted to a water pipe at the end of my path and l was told it was mine by SW...this meter was taken off and a new meter fitted in August and my neighbour was then told it was her water pipe..
My pipe was located next to it a month later. I have been asking for a meter to be fitted ever since and also to ask them to look into my account for the last 14 years of what l have been paying. I have rang them and sent emails but the replies all say we are looking into it for you.its an automated reply..when l ring an adviser l am told will pass onto that dept but they won't put me through so l can talk to them myself! When l ring again they say we have no record of you ringing before!! It's a crazy situation...5 emails later and 3 calls still nothing!

Appalling lying, cheating, and corrupt and disingenuous from the CEO down.

Southern Water are over priced company that charge extortionate prices for the water.
What to put cost of water from £25 per month to £93 per month for a one bedroom flat and I do not use a lot of water.
These utilitie companies are getting to much profit and making the poorer even more poorer.

This company has genuinely been absolutely diabolical. Given I take some blame, I was a university student who was moving into a new house for the first time with my friends who was told to register with this company even though we have bills package set up with my house. Every time I have tried to tell them or close the account their either pushed my outstanding bill back and repetitively sent me emails. I had to invoke Unihomes into this matter as there was no use getting through to them. Unihomes has claimed to follow up with them, even labelling my issue as an emergency and yet Southern Waters has claimed there has been nothing of it. This company has brought so much dread onto me considering I have university and can barely keep up with my bills at this point. No one is reliable in that company and they constantly dismiss your claims and complaints like it is mud on their shoes.

They keep increasing our DD by 50% even though our current usage (which has been the same for around a year now) indicates it should not be increasing. I have spoken to MULTIPLE agents who do not understand this. They explain the increase by saying our usage has increased (by 1p a day so that makes no sense) and the cost of water went up last April. And yet after I did a recent meter reading, it showed we only owed £15 since April, so we are clearly paying roughly the right amount. I have had to do multiple meter readings and have had many frustrating conversations. I eventually spoke to someone who finally understood what I was saying. Don't bother talking to agents over chat, they are even worse, completely clueless.

They stopped using the DD I have with them in December for no reason whatsoever and without telling me. My bank tell me it was in place and they is no reason their end why this happened. The money was available in the account - I have never failed to pay a DD in my life. Had a 40 minute phone call to a male staff member there who put me on hold about 10 times during the call which was pretty worrying. I paid the outstanding balance and set up a new DD. This resulted in 2 total garbage computer generated letters. I called my bank again to cancel the old DD. So today I thought I should call them to check everything was ok and tell them to stop the letters and ensure everything was set for the new February DD as of course I have no reason to trust them. Surprise surprise! They have no record of the new DD on my account whatsoever. Words cannot express how much I absolutely hate this company. At a time when they have practically doubled the price of my water their service and accounts have gone completely into disarray. How much longer do we have to suffer this failing organisation? Perhaps they should spend some of this extra money they are raking in on staff training instead of yet more undeserved bonuses?

Came in less than 24 hours to unblock the drains outside. Did the job foc, and the guy was very friendly and informative.

I have been paying £35 a month for water with Southern Water for the last year. A few days ago they claim I will have to pay £85 a month to cover my usage. Firstly, they have not even done a meter reading or sent me any kind of proof/bill to justify more than doubling my monthly costs. I have tried to contact them to sort it out, but nothing. How can you justify charging more than double without even looking at someones usage? I've now paid of the previous bill in full and cancelled the direct debit, unacceptable behaviour really.

Since May 2025 my direct debit has increased 3 times, now double what it was, apparently to enable them to put in place the improvements customers have said is important to them. I have not had a meter reading since last May, impossible to submit a meter reading. This company are impossible to deal with and need to be taken to task by OFWAT and the government. Would have given 0 stars if I could.

Yet another bill increase to pay for greed bonus payments and failure

I have just discovered my bill has shot up by 47% in one hit.
Judging by the number of poor reviews my guess is that they don`t care about customer feedback and that they feel they can just do what they want as a monopoly with no consequences for their actions.
They consistantly pay out a fortune in dividends yet cost of re-investment is paid directly by the customer.
Along with this rant I am going to goint to go howl at the moon again tonight for all the control we have, roll on the revolution