Result of EGM

Northumbrian Water Group PLC
16 December 2003

                                                                16 December 2003



                          Northumbrian Water Group plc

                                (the "Company")



        Notice of Resolutions passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting

                                16 December 2003



The Company announces that two copies of the resolutions, the text of which is
provided below, passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held
today, have been sent to the UKLA's Document viewing facility and will shortly
be available for inspection.



IT WAS RESOLVED:



1.       That the Northumbrian Water Group plc Share Incentive Plan 2003 (the "
SIP"), the rules of which are produced to the meeting and signed by the Chairman
for the purposes of identification and a summary of which is set out in the
Appendix to the circular to shareholders accompanying this notice, be and are
hereby approved, and that the directors of the Company be authorised to adopt
the SIP, subject to such amendments thereto as may appear to the directors to be
necessary or desirable, and to do all things necessary to give effect to the
SIP, including obtaining the approval of the Inland Revenue.



2.       That the Northumbrian Water Group plc Long Term Incentive Plan 2003
(the "LTIP"), the rules of which are produced to the meeting and signed by the
Chairman for the purposes of identification and a summary of which is set out in
the Appendix to the circular to shareholders accompanying this notice, be and
are hereby approved, and that the directors of the Company be authorised to
adopt the LTIP, subject to such amendments thereto as may appear to the
directors to be necessary or desirable, and to do all things necessary to give
effect to the LTIP.



3.       That the Company and its subsidiaries be and are hereby authorised to
make Donations to EU Political Organisations and to incur EU Political
Expenditure in an aggregate amount not exceeding £40,000 during the period
ending two years from the date of the passing of this resolution (and, for the
purposes of this resolution, the terms "Donations", "EU Political Organisations"
and "EU Political Expenditure" have the meanings set out in section 347A of the
Companies Act 1985, as amended by the Political Parties, Elections and
Referendums Act 2000).



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