More than £300 million is being invested this year to upgrade water and waste water infrastructure in South Yorkshire.

With an 83,000km labyrinth of water pipes across the Yorkshire region, significant investment is required by Yorkshire Water to keep the underground network operating to high standards.

Key schemes include:

• A £20m project at Langsett water treatment works to ensure customers in the area continue to benefit from quality drinking water.

• A £24m scheme at Rivelin water treatment works to improve drinking water quality for over 200,000 customers in Sheffield, estimated for completion in Autumn 2018.

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• A £20m scheme at Lundwood sewage treatment works in Barnsley to improve the final effluent quality and ammonia odour levels in the River Dearne

• Developing a fish pass 'super highway' at Langsett reservoir near Stocksbridge. The scheme is the first phase of a much wider programme of work which will see a total of 14 new fish passes built across the region between now and 2020

John Bond, Communications Advisor at Yorkshire Water, said: "Since 2015, we have spent over £100m in South Yorkshire, not only on upgrading water treatment works, sewers and pumping stations, but also odour management, conserving moorland, reducing flood risk, and improving rivers.

"This will help us meet our customer commitments and ensure that we continue to be regarded as having some of the best drinking water in the country and boasting some of the finest landscapes."

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