Directors' Dealings

SEVERN TRENT PLC
13 August 1999


Severn Trent Plc has today been informed that on 12 August 1999, the Trustees
of the Severn Trent Plc Employee Share Ownership Trust (the 'Trust') acquired
128,982 Ordinary Shares of 65 5/19 pence each in Severn Trent Plc (the
'Company') at a price of GBP 8.7798 per share.  The shares were acquired for
use in connection with the Severn Trent Plc Long Term Incentive Plan (the
'Plan').  As beneficiaries of the Trust and participators in the Plan the
Executive Directors, V Cocker, J K Banyard, M J Bettington, R A S Costin and B
Duckworth, have an interest in the shares for the purposes of Section 324 of
the Companies Act 1985.