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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Michael Hunter

London water bills to be slashed by £100 million as regulators hit out at Thames Water leaks and spills

Londoners will be paying over £100 million less to Thames Water next year as the company was hit the hardest by a crackdown from regulators.

The capital’s troubled utility is on the hook for the lion’s share of the financial impact from Ofwat’s action against inadequate performance, which reached £114 million in total across the industry. The penalty Thames faces from forced cuts to bills is more than twice as high as other firms’.

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