About the author
Stanley Root worked as an auditor for a big four accountancy firm in Russia for 20 years.
After retiring he lived by Lake Annecy for seven years and wrote a brief history of a citizen-led campaign that saved that lake from sewage pollution.
He now lives in Oxford and contributes from time to time to the work of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution and the People's Commission on the Water Sector.
He describes himself as a campaigner for transparency and accountability by the water industry.
This database of proforma information extracted from audited financial statements is his work alone and without funding of any kind.
It is intended as a reliable source of financial information for anyone interested in the history, and concerned about the future, of our water industry.