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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Rebecca Speare-Cole

Water companies to undergo ‘MOTs’ as plans for new regulator to be unveiled

South East Water customers collect bottled water (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

Water companies will be required to carry out to infrastructure “MOTs” to prevent major failures under plans for a new industry watchdog, the Government has said.

Ministers are set to unveil a series of reforms in Parliament as they move ahead with a major regulatory shake-up that will see Ofwat abolished and the current system of overlapping oversight by four different bodies merged into a single regulator.

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