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Water industry

September 2024

  • A sign from Thames Water while repair work takes place on a residential street

    Remainder of year’s water bills will pay dividends and service debts, say campaigners

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Elliott, unlike Thames Water’s board, sees the inevitability of debt writedowns

    Nils Pratley
  • A Thames Water engineer fixes pipes.

    Water firms in England and Wales lost more than 1tn litres from leaks last year

  • Man in hessian smock with white-painted face stands in front of water with sign around his neck reading: 'Thought greed was good - it turned out crap'

    The Guardian view on the regulatory state: Labour must put people before profit

  • Water bosses could be jailed if they cover up sewage dumping under new law

  • The Grenfell inquiry is exposing a culture of contempt that has run deep in Britain for decades

    Rowan Moore

August 2024

  • People paddle in boats along a tree-lined river

    Many protected landscapes owned by English water firms in disrepair, data shows

  • Thames Water is blighted by sewage scandals, fines and huge debts.

    Thames Water lobbied Whitehall to press Ofwat on allowing higher bills

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Thames Water’s ‘difficult choices’ must include pain for bondholders

    Nils Pratley
  • Thames Water vans parked on a road

    Thames Water says without steep bill increase it’s ‘neither financeable nor investible’

  • Water bills must rise if Labour is to hit housebuilding target, industry claims

  • Dear ministers, I am a climate crisis campaigner: nationalise me right now

    George Monbiot
  • UK water companies to warn bill cap will drive away investors for overhaul

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Water campaigners are right about enforcement. Labour’s plans are still too vague

    Nils Pratley
  • Privatised water firms are imperilling our health and poisoning our rivers. Act now: flood the streets with rage

    Feargal Sharkey
  • Ministers urged to end water ‘postcode lottery’ with single social tariff

  • Environment Agency considering legal action after sewage spill at Devon beach

  • Canadian export agency ‘nursing losses’ after lending $1bn to Thames Water

  • Sewage-spilling English water firms could be denied ‘top marks’ in rankings

  • Thames Water barred from billing customers for pension shortfall

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