Key Dates 2008

United Utilities PLC

9 January 2008

          United Utilities announces its key corporate dates for 2008          

United Utilities will announce its preliminary results for the year ending 31
March 2008 on Tuesday 3 June 2008. The key corporate dates are expected to be:

Interim management statement for the period from 1       30 January 2008  
October 2007                                                              
                                                                          
Pre-close trading update                                 26 March 2008    
                                                                          
Announcement of preliminary results for year ending 31   3 June 2008      
March 2008                                                                
                                                                          
Posting of circular for Scheme of Arrangement and notice June 2008        
of the Extraordinary General Meeting *                                    
                                                                          
Ex-dividend date for 2007/08 final dividend              25 June 2008     
                                                                          
Record date for 2007/08 final dividend                   27 June 2008     
                                                                          
Court convened shareholder meeting and Extraordinary     June/July 2008   
General Meeting in relation to the Scheme of Arrangement                  
*                                                                         
                                                                          
Interim management statement for the period from 1 April 25 July 2008     
2008                                                                      
                                                                          
Annual General Meeting                                   25 July 2008     
                                                                          
United Utilities PLC shares cancelled and de-listed *    July/August 2008 
                                                                          
New holding company issues ordinary shares and B         July/August 2008 
redeemable shares to former shareholders of United                        
Utilities PLC *                                                           
                                                                          
Payment of 2007/08 final dividend to shareholders        8 August 2008    
                                                                          
Despatch of cheques in payment of the B dividend and the August 2008      
first redemption date for the B shares *                                  
                                                                          
Pre-close trading update (provisional)                   24 September 2008
                                                                          
Announcement of half yearly results for year ending 31   26 November 2008 
March 2009 (provisional)                                                  

* This refers to the proposed return of value announced on 29 November 2007.

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Further information can be obtained from:

Paul Davies, Deputy Company Secretary [phone]

Darren Jameson, 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 "UUPLY".