The Latest Breaking News on Droughts

Bills are never popular. They're especially unwelcome when it comes to paying for something that falls from the sky. Unfortunately, as Britain's water systems struggle under financial mismanagement and the pressures of climate change, higher water costs are something consumers are all going to have to swallow.

Shareholders put in another £750 million to heavily indebted company

David Black says water firms’ debt is ‘their issue to sort out’ because regulator did not have powers to tackle problem until recently

The work should be completed by the end of the year

As Britain's biggest water company faces collapse and sewage fills our rivers, Liam Thorp says privatisation has left parts of our country in a state of near-collapse

Demands for an end to the ‘revolving door’ as ex-Ofwat directors are hired by key firms

Tory peer says in light of Thames Water troubles that firms should not have been allowed to borrow so much

Recent downpours have not been sufficient to turn around the scourge of water scarcity in Scotland.

The local council said the works posed a risk to the public