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Ofwat said failures by the company led to ‘excessive spills from storm overflows’.

A completely privately run public water system is an experiment few countries have decided to try.

Total remuneration at companies in England and Wales – many of them under scrutiny for sewage discharge – was £15m in 2024-25

YOUR VIEWS: Readers overwhelmingly support scrapping the regulator, but remain deeply divided over whether fixing the water industry means reforming regulation or returning it to public ownership

Chris Hinchliff says language used is indicative of ‘private schoolboy drinking club’ culture within government

England’s privatised water industry may one day be considered a textbook case study of failed corporate responsibility, regulation and governance. The Cunliffe review, the recent report into England’s privatised water industry, concluded that the financial regulator, OfWat, needs to be disbanded and a new water regulator will be introduced.

Exclusive: Calls grow for tougher action on water firms, instead of relying on households to cut demand

Ofwat abolished as ministers adopt Cunliffe review ideas such as sewage map naming and shaming firms

His review goes to the heart of one main problem: the sector’s fragmented, overlapping and inflexible regulatory system

A harder rain needs to fall on those responsible for the water crisis. Let Thames Water fail – it doesn’t deserve a bailout, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Britain's Labour government has decided to scrap Ofwat and establish a new watchdog to prevent "abuses of the past."