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Evening Standard
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Josie Clarke

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

A general view of water going down a plughole (Ian Nicholson/PA) - (PA Archive)

Five water firms are to be provisionally allowed to raise their bills by between 1% and 5% more than previously granted by regulator Ofwat, the competition watchdog has said.

Five companies – Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water, and Wessex Water – argued that Ofwat’s original decision left them unable to meet the regulatory requirements set out for them.

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