Key Corporate Dates for 2009

United Utilities Group PLC

14 January 2009

          United Utilities announces its key corporate dates for 2009          

United Utilities expects to announce its preliminary results for the year
ending 31 March 2009 on Thursday 28 May 2009. The key corporate dates are
expected to be:

Interim management statement for the period from 1       28 January 2009  
October 2008                                                              
                                                                          
Payment of 2008/09 interim dividend to shareholders      4 February 2009  
                                                                          
Pre-close trading update                                 26 March 2009    
                                                                          
Despatch of cheques or crediting of accounts in relation By 20 April 2009 
to the final redemption of the B shares and the B shares                  
continuing dividend *                                                     
                                                                          
Announcement of preliminary results for the year ending  28 May 2009      
31 March 2009                                                             
                                                                          
Ex-dividend date for 2008/09 final dividend              17 June 2009     
                                                                          
Record date for 2008/09 final dividend                   19 June 2009     
                                                                          
Interim management statement for the period from 1 April 24 July 2009     
2009                                                                      
                                                                          
Annual General Meeting                                   24 July 2009     
                                                                          
Payment of 2008/09 final dividend to shareholders        3 August 2009    
                                                                          
Pre-close trading update (provisional)                   23 September 2009
                                                                          
Announcement of half yearly financial report for the six 25 November 2009 
months ending 30 September 2009 (provisional)                             

* This refers to the residual balance (approximately £17 million) of the £1.5
billion return to shareholders, as initially announced on 29 November 2007, and
applies to those shareholders who elected to receive all or part of their
return in April 2009.

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Further information can be obtained from:

Jane Gilmore, Deputy Company Secretary [phone]

Darren Jameson, Head of Investor Relations [phone]

United Utilities' ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and its
ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade over the counter under the
Trading Symbol "UUGRY".