Annual Report & Accounts 2017/18

29 Strategic Report NI Water Annual Report and Accounts 2017/18 NI Water staff repairing a supply interruption. We look after a water supply network extending to over 26,000km in length – the same length as Northern Ireland’s entire road network. Ensuring that customers receive a near uninterrupted supply of clean safe drinking water is paramount. We achieved our targets for supply interruptions in 2017/18 despite summer flooding which caused significant damage to infrastructure in the NorthWest and adverse winter weather conditions, which caused higher levels of bursts across our network. In that context, we are pleased that no customers experienced any unplanned interruption to their supply greater than 24 hours. Every second counts 1. Instrumentation at one of our water treatment works.