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The Latest Breaking News from Thames

Britain’s biggest water firm announces hosepipe ban for 10m customers

The ban applies to all customers that Thames Water supplies with drinking water across London, the Thames Valley and the home counties.

Evening Standard

Thames Water nationalisation ‘not the answer’ says minister after private equity rescue fails

Future of Britain’s biggest water supplier in question as investor pulls out of turnaround plan

The Independent UK

I’m A Celebrity star Jordan North pulled from River Thames after dog rescue

A member of the public spotted him and called the RNLI just after 5pm on Monday.

Evening Standard

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Debt, sewage and dividends: the rising tide of Thames Water’s troubles

In the second part of our focus on the water industry, we chart the decline of one of the UK’s major utility companies, now on the brink of restructuring or renationalisation

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners warn against Thames Water’s £250m effluent ‘recycling’ scheme

Scheme would involve abstracting water from the River Thames at Teddington and replacing it with treated sewage

The Guardian - UK

Water chiefs condemned over ‘scandal’ of sewage in Thames

Teddington waterworks plan blasted as harmful and unnecessary

Evening Standard

Thames Water has failed to install any smart meters yet in £70m green scheme

Company admits delay in rolling out devices to 204,700 customers, with deadline less than two years away

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What the papers say – June 29

Rising crisis at Thames Water takes centre stage on several of Thursday’s newspaper front pages.

The Independent UK

England needs ‘weeks of rain’ to stop drought next year as temperatures surge

Eight areas in the UK have been placed in drought conditions: Devon and Cornwall, Solent and South Downs, Kent and south London, Hertfordshire and north London, East Anglia, Thames, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, and the east Midlands

Evening Standard

Wet wipe island the size of two tennis courts has ‘changed flow of River Thames’

Labour MP Fleur Anderson has called on the government to ban the use of plastic in wet wipes

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