Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1878
Poor filtration and contamination findings
Water-quality assessments identified the company's supply as substantially the poorest among the compared London companies, citing turbidity, insufficient filtration, organic impurity, and moving organisms.
1854
Cholera deaths among the supplied population
A cholera outbreak caused an estimated 4,267 deaths among people supplied by the company, making the safety of its Thames-based water a major public-health concern.
1850
Contemporary criticism of water quality
The company's water attracted severe criticism from contemporary scientific observers, including a description by Arthur Hassall that characterized it as exceptionally objectionable.