Holding(s) in Company

United Utilities PLC
19 March 2002


                              UNITED UTILITIES PLC

                             TUESDAY 19 MARCH, 2002

                  NOTIFICATION RECEIVED OF INTEREST IN SHARES


We received yesterday, 18 March 2002, a notification dated 14 March 2002, from
CGNU plc stating that the company and its subsidiary company, Morley Fund
Management Ltd, no longer had a notifiable interest in the share capital of
United Utilities PLC.

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United Utilities' ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and its
ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade on the New York Stock Exchange
under the Trading Symbol 'UU'.


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