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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Holly Williams

Thames Water sinks to £1.6bn loss as debt mountain balloons

Thames Water’s full year results showed its net debts swelled by another £1.65 billion over the year (PA) - (PA Archive)

Troubled Thames Water has revealed it slumped to a £1.65 billion annual loss and saw its mammoth debt mountain balloon higher.

The utility tumbled to the pre-tax loss in the year to March 31 from profits of £157 million the previous year after it booked a £1.27 billion bad debt provision on intercompany loans and set aside £122 million for fines from Ofwat, among other costs.

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