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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alex Lawson

Ofwat orders Thames Water to produce turnaround plan over sewage record

A Thames Water sewage treatment works at Cassington in Oxfordshire.
A Thames Water treatment works in Oxfordshire. The firm’s performance in regards to sewage and serving customers has been called ‘completely unacceptable’. Photograph: Adrian Arbib/Alamy

Thames Water has been ordered to update its service commitment plan by the regulator Ofwat after a minister said the company’s performance in regards to sewage dumping and serving customers was “completely unacceptable”.

Robbie Moore, the floods minister, said Britain’s biggest water supplier was “under no illusions over the scale of the challenge” as MPs heard that Thames had allowed waterways to become polluted and homes to be flooded with sewage.

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