Change to Board of Directors

Pennon Group PLC
2 May 2000

Pennon Group Plc is pleased to announce that Sir Geoffrey Chipperfield KCB,
Non-executive Director of Pennon Group Plc since 1993, has been appointed as
Non-executive Deputy Chairman and as the Senior Independent Director of  the
Board of Pennon Group Plc with effect from 1 May 2000.  Sir Geoffrey was the
permanent secretary and Chief Executive of PSA Services between 1991 and 1993
and previously he was permanent secretary in the Department of Energy.  He is
Chairman of the Energy Advisory Panel of the Department of Trade and Industry,
Chairman of the British Cement Association and pro-chancellor of the
University of Kent.

Pennon Group Plc is also pleased to announce that Ms Kate Mortimer MA B.Phil,
has been appointed a Non-executive Director of Pennon Group Plc also with
effect from 1 May 2000.  

A former director of N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd, Director of Policy at the
Securities and Investments Board and Chief Executive of Walker Books, Ms
Mortimer is currently a Non-executive Director of British Nuclear Fuels Plc, a
member of the Competition Commission, a member of the Crown Agents Foundation
Council, a Director of Crown Agents Financial Services Limited and a Director
of Crown Agents Asset Management Limited.  As a freelance financial sector
consultant since 1990 Ms Mortimer has worked principally for the British Know
How Fund organising technical assistance in countries of the former Soviet
bloc.