Directors' Dealings

SEVERN TRENT PLC
23 August 1999


SEVERN TRENT PLC


Severn Trent Plc has been informed on 23 August 1999 that 
Mr V Cocker, a director of the Company, has acquired ten thousand ordinary
shares of 65 5/19 pence in the Company as a normal market purchase:-

Date of       No. of          % issued    Price    Total        % issued  
transaction   ordinary        ordinary    GBP      holding of    ordinary
              shares          share                ordinary      share 
              acquired        capital              shares as     capital
                                                   altered 


23 August 1999  10,000         0.0029    8.43       19,768        0.006    


Enquiries:
Caroline Wilkinson    0121 722 4785