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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jillian Ambrose

Thames Water’s biggest investor cuts value of its stake to zero

Thames Water van
Thames Water supplies about a quarter of the UK’s population. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Thames Water’s biggest investor has slashed the value of its stake in the company to zero in the latest sign of an escalating financial crisis for Britain’s biggest water supplier.

The Canadian pension fund Omers issued a “full writedown” of its 31.7% stake in Thames’s troubled parent company in its annual report published on Friday, signalling that it believes its share is worth nothing.

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