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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson

Thames Water hit with £39m of penalties after missing regulatory targets

Two men wearing orange hi-vis overalls, one in a white hard hat, are seen around a hole in the pavement with lengths of blue piping; there are sandbags, barriers and hazard cones around the hole, and a Thames Water van bearing the company's logo parked by. A boarded-up shopfront without signage is seen behind the hole, and a takeaway noodle bar next to that.
Thames Water workers repair a pipe in Reading, Berkshire. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex

Thames Water was hit with penalties of nearly £39m last year after missing a string of environmental targets and said its tumultuous corporate governance had damaged its reputation.

The debt-laden company – which was this week put into special measures by the regulator, Ofwat – missed 21 regulatory targets last financial year in multiple areas, from pollution incidents to leakage and supply interruptions, a report said.

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