In June, Northumbrian reported a 6.3% rise in full-year profits for the year to the end of March.
Northumbrian Water said its total dividend payment would rise by 6.7% to 11.27p.
Severn Trent's shares fell 1.6% to 1, 538 pence in morning trading in London, while Northumbrian Water's dipped 2.4% to 333p.
Yorkshire Water, Northumbrian Water, Northern Gas, and Northern Powergrid said the plans aimed to tackle future changes in population and climate.
Northumbrian Water said it was confident the steps would improve the bathing water, but added there were sources of pollution beyond its control.
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But Richard Berg Rust, chairman of the Northumbrian Association, thinks that the flag of Bernicia is only really popular north of the Tyne.
Scientists commissioned by Northumbrian Water are now monitoring an estuary at Amble, Northumberland, to find out if numbers of birds are in decline.
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On the Firth of Forth, says Northumbrian Water's Mr Spray, large populations of scaup, a diving duck, vanished after the effluent was cleaned up.
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Jason Davidson met Lowery in the second round and the big Northumbrian felled him in straight falls with a right side buttock and a back-heel.
The biggest and best performance came from a Northumbrian wrestler who won the All Weights Championship in 1992, but has wrestled only rarely in the last ten years.
Volunteers from The West End Anglers and The Northumbrian Anglers Federation helped restore the fish pass, which had been closed for 20 years after it had fallen into disrepair.
Also involved in the project are Gateshead Council, Northumbrian Water, the National Trust and The Forestry Commission with additional funding from The Heritage Lottery Fund and SITA Environmental Trust.
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Northumbrian Water, which supplies 4.6 million people in England and Gibraltar, also said it was committed to cutting its leakage levels, and that it had met the targets imposed by Ofwat.
James Oliver is bilingual: he speaks Scots with a Northumbrian accent, which reflects his first wrestling experience training at Rothbury Academy before moving over the Carter Bar to a farm near Jedburgh.
Viewed from within the walls of Marygate in the town centre, the evidence of Berwick's chequered history remains in the accents of the people - part Scots Borders, part soft Northumbrian burr.
That her forebears include Northumbrian miners and her mother was formerly an air stewardess, that her parents made their own money, and that she met the prince at university rather than a stately home, can only do her good.
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Meanwhile a Gateshead vicar, the Reverend Tony Hodgson, and his supporters are planning to lay siege to the British Library on March 21st (the day after St Cuthbert's Day) with what they say will be a celebration of Northumbrian culture, featuring folk musicians.
Sir George Russell, head of the Northern Development Corporation, points out that while the government is happy to spend millions in grants to attract a new factory to the north-east, very little is spent to advertise the attractions of the Northumbrian countryside although an expansion in tourism might generate many more jobs than a semiconductor plant.
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