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Severn Trent Services Awarded Contract to Provide Water Treatment
Equipment and Services for Two Britvic Soft Drinks Plants in England

Company to replace carbon filtration vessels at Beckton facility and
provide turnkey water treatment plant at Widford plant

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. - January 5, 2006 - Severn Trent Services has been
awarded a contract by Britvic Soft Drinks, one of the two leading soft drink
manufacturers in Great Britain, to provide water treatment equipment
and services for the company's facilities in Beckton and Widford, England.

Contract work began in August 2005 with work scheduled for completion
at the Beckton site in January 2006 and at the Widford site in March 2006. The
contract is valued at just under $2 million.

The contracted work will enable Britvic Soft Drinks to continue to meet
the water quality standards of PepsiCo. Britvic is the U.K. bottling and
distribution franchise for PepsiCo's Pepsi and 7up beverages.

At the Beckton site, Severn Trent Services will replace existing carbon
filtration vessels with a system that is steam sterilisable. The company is
responsible for the design, construction and installation of the system
and the operator training of Britvic employees. The three carbon filtration
vessels being installed will remove chlorine in the plant's process
water. Each filter is capable of handling up to 100m3/hr. of process water.

At the Widford site, the company is responsible for the design,
construction and installation of a turnkey water treatment plant consisting of two
production streams that can each accommodate a process water flow rate
of 30m3/hr.

About Severn Trent Services
Severn Trent Services, based in Fort Washington, Pa., is a leading supplier of water and wastewater treatment solutions.

The company's broad range of products and services is concentrated around disinfection, instrumentation, and filtration technologies, pipeline analysis, rehabilitation and repair services, contract operating services and state-of-the-art residential metering
products and services. Our international management services business provides support in all aspects of water and wastewater utility operational development and business transformation.

Severn Trent Services is a member of the Severn Trent Plc (London: SVT.L) group of companies. An international environmental services leader, Severn Trent is a FTSE 100 company.

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