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Unbelievable.
"Thames Water is asking to be spared billions of pounds of costs and fines over the next five years and heap more on to bills so it can attract new investors."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/14/thames-water-asks-ofwat-to-be-spared-fines-costs
The Guardian · Thames Water begs to be spared fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away
UK petition about water companies, national ownership and government minister's approach.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/steve-reed-include-public-ownership-as-an-option-in-your-independent-commission-on-the-water-sector
#UKpolitics #WaterCompanies #nationalisation
We Own ItSteve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own ItSteve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.
I just signed this important petition on Organise, stop the water bills rising, we should not be paying for this as the water company share holders have taken all the money. Please can you add your name? https://organise.network/actions/petition-petition-stop-water-bills-risin-ig6Y0Tpx
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organise.networkPetition: Stop water bills rising!Add your name:
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Southern Water: Water industry price rises explained | Hampshire Chronicl
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24806922.southern-water-water-industry-price-rises-explained/
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Hampshire Chronicle · Southern Water: Water industry price rises explained
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/23/revealed-thames-water-diverted-cash-for-clean-ups-to-help-pay-bonuses?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #UK #Water #WaterCompanies #ThamesWater #Profiteering
The Guardian · Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
This is a failure of democracy. 82% of the public want #water back into #PublicOwnership, but we weren’t part of the decision. Now we’re stuck bailing #WaterCompanies out for decades of recklessness. We need a new water system where everyone has a say.
The Guardian · Average water bill in England and Wales to rise by 36% over five years
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Water company fat cats are ‘making us pay for decades of criminal behaviour’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/water-company-fat-cats-are-making-us-pay-for-decades-of-criminal-behaviour
Ban The Bailouts:
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. We need to act now, before it's too late.
To: Prime Minister, Keir Starmer
The Water (Special Measures) Bill is not fit for purpose and requires urgent amendment. We demand that you:
Ban any bailout of water company debt and shareholders using taxpayer or customer money;
Replace Ofwat's duty to deliver water company profits with a duty to protect the environment and public health.
Sign and share the petition:
https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/our-water-quality-campaigns/ban-the-bailouts/
Surfers Against SewageBan the BailoutsThe Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. Help stop this scandal, before it’s too late.
I know that this sounds expensive and sounds like the water companies are just taking the piss, but what you have to remember is that it's very expensive to do all the maintenance on the CEOs' yachts.
BBC NewsWater bills to rise by £86 on average next year, regulator saysThe higher than proposed average bill rise in England and Wales comes amid public anger over sewage discharges.
"Hardly any other country has a privatised water supply. The public support public ownership, and since we have to pay to dig reservoirs and fix pipes anyway, we may as well spare ourselves the built-in cost of ensuring fat profits for the crooks who created this mess."
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/editorial-collapse-centre-france-has-its-parallels-britain
#WaterCompanies #UKpolitics
Corporate greed floods our waters with toxic sewage while pocketing billions in profits and shareholder handouts.
But we can end this – by bringing water back into public ownership.
Join me here:
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/reclaim_our_water_2_0/?
#petition #watercompany #sewage #watercompanies
AvaazCorporate greed is polluting our waters..Let’s reclaim our most vital resource!
Filling in a bit of polling by 38Degrees, on water companies in UK, I found myself writing:
"Our water and sewage system has been, in effect, robbed of past investment. The money that should have funded infrastructure and better service has, instead, ended up in vulture capital and overpayment of executives and dividends. The companies need to have their rules explicitly tightened to include proper investment and targets for clean water, sewage treatment and the future-proofing of infrastructure (including for climate change). There should be stringent punishments for non-delivery and there should be a realistic restorative element (ie the failure to properly invest in the past should be made up for). If companies cannot do this, then their fall in value will enable them to be taken into public ownership and the remedying can be more directly directed by the nation."
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One of the promises of privatisation is that the free market would bring improved efficiency.
This isn't remotely a free market. In a free market, companies who fail go bust and, if they provided something useful, get replaced by someone who does it better.
This is just legalised extortion.
It really is time to let the water companies go bust and nationalise them.
BBC NewsWater bills set to rise by more than expectedThe regulator will allow higher bills to fund growing costs and investment, the BBC understands.
They misdirected funds to dividends and exec salaries and now they want us to pay to clean up the resulting mess!
Water companies have racked up 1,135 criminal convictions for illegal sewage dumping ever since they were privatised 35 years ago - yet they still keep pumping more sewage into our rivers and seas. You’ve committed to a new law to crack down on these companies. Now, we ask you to stop water industry lobbyists from watering down legislation, and to make sure criminal firms are finally brought to justice.
https://38d.gs/vgc0
#ukPolitics #WaterCompanies #privatisation #priceGouging
38d.gsSign the petition: Bring criminal water companies to justice!SHOCKING investigation reveals water companies have racked up 1,135 CRIMINAL convictions! Join me in calling on the Government to bring them to justice by adding your name today:
English water system singled out for criticism by UN special rapporteur | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/english-water-system-singled-out-criticism-un-special-rapporteur
The Guardian · English water system singled out for criticism by UN special rapporteur
So if the water companies are fined an amount amounting to less than £10 per customer, but are allowed to put bills up by £94 per customer, I suggest that the fine is not a serious deterrent to lawbreaking.
May I humbly suggest a more appropriate punishment for water companies who break the law would be to fine the directors personally, or for serious breaches, jail them.
That would be an actual deterrent.
BBC NewsWater companies must return £158m on customer bills - OfwatOfwat reviews water companies against metrics including pollution, customer service and leakage.
'#Labour used “economically illiterate” analysis paid for by #WaterCompanies in order to argue against the nationalisation of the sector, the Guardian can reveal.'
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/29/labour-water-industry-analysis-argue-against-nationalisation
The Guardian · Labour used water industry analysis to argue against nationalisation