Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Thames Water reveals £3 billion emergency financing plan to keep it solvent until October 2025

Thames Water warned it could run out of money by May (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Wire)

Struggling Thames Water today revealed plans for a “stay of execution” through raising an extra £3 billion in emergency funding from creditors that will give it financial stability through to October next year.

Britain’s biggest water supplier had faced running out of money by May when it would have been forced into a special administration arrangement - effectively a nationalisation - that would have been one of Britain’s biggest ever corporate insolvencies.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.