UUGRY United Utilities Group PLC (PK)

UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC

DIRECTORS' AND PDMR INTERESTS IN SHARES

United Utilities Group PLC ("the Company") announces that it received
notification on 19 August 2014 that the Trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees
Limited, purchased ordinary shares of 5p each on behalf of the following
directors and persons discharging managerial responsibility on 18 August 2014,
to be held in accordance with the rules of the Company's HMRC approved share
incentive plan. The shares were purchased at a price of 874 pence per share.

      Director/PDMR            No. of Shares
                                 purchased

      Sue Amies-King                20

       Neil Colman                  21

        Gary Dixon                  20

       Steve Fraser                 20

      Simon Gardiner                21

     Jonathan Hodgkin               20

       Russ Houlden                 20

      Gaynor Kenyon                 20

      Steve Mogford                 21

     Janice Smethurst               20

       Paula Steer                  21

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Further information can be obtained from Jane Gilmore, Deputy Company Secretary
44 1 925 237052

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United Utilities Group's ordinary shares trade on the London Stock Exchange and
its ADRs, each equal to two ordinary shares, trade over the counter under the
Trading Symbol "UUGRY".