Thames Water fined £67k for 'unsafe' central London works Utilities giant ordered to pay out after ‘unsafe’ works left members of public ‘at risk’ Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2024
Water companies raise bonuses to £9.1m despite record sewage discharges Third of total comprises bonuses at Severn Trent as indebted Thames nearly doubles payouts to executives The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024
Water firms ‘laying groundwork’ to appeal against Ofwat bill rise cap, says Moody’s Credit rating agency expects English and Welsh companies to challenge regulator’s ruling with CMA watchdog The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2024
Super sewer: Thames Water customers will pay £25 annual levy for another two decades to fund £4.5bn project Seven new riverside piers, cycle superhighway reinstated - but tunnel boss won’t be swimming in the Thames, despite Sadiq Khan’s vision Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2024
London's new £4.5bn super sewer opens, but will it clean the Thames? Four of the tunnel’s 21 sites have now opened, kicking off the Thames’ clean-up operation Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2024
‘They are ruining my life’: how the shadowy world of debt collection can wreck your finances A stranger’s bill can be passed, in your name, down a chain of companies until it reaches the courts without you knowing anything about it. The result can be catastrophic The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2024
Thames clean-up under way as London’s £4.5bn super sewer opens with filthy spills already being stopped The first valves at four of a total of 21 sites, which operate like giant gates, have opened along the seven metre-wide tunnel Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2024
Don’t indulge the Thames Water whingers next week, prime minister Labour should stand firm at its investors summit and remind attenders that the UK’s utilities sector is eminently investable The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024
Water companies ordered to return £158m to customers next year after missing key targets For the second year in a row, no company achieved the top rating, although four companies did show an improvement from last year. Evening Standard · Oct 8, 2024
Southern Water seeks to borrow up to £4bn from investors Move could increase pressure on utility companies turning to bond markets amid crisis at Thames Water The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2024
Unresolved water complaints in England and Wales rise to near-decade high Customer disputes over sewage spills, billing mistakes and water meters soar in past year The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2024
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Calls for failing English water firms to be taken over using special administration Government urged to use power to control companies such as Thames Water and reform the industry The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024
Thames Water could be blocked from new debt financing next week Troubled firm has until 7 October to agree to extension, according to holding company accounts The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2024 Labour used water industry analysis to argue against nationalisation ‘Economically illiterate’ Defra letter sent to anti-sewage groups cites 2018 report commissioned by water companies
Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2024 OPINION - Thames Water has failed London, it's time to let it go bust — or nationalise it The longer a scandal rolls on, the harder it is to keep in perspective. It now seems almost normal that we live in a country that pours raw sewage into waterways on a daily basis. When we first heard water companies were releasing filth into rivers and the sea —…
The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024 Thames Water credit ratings slashed to lower levels of junk as default fears grow S&P and Moody’s cut ratings by five notches on risk troubled company will run out of cash
Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2024 Credit agencies slash their ratings on Thames Water debt The move drags £16 billion of Thames Water debt even deeper into junk territory
The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2024 Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’ Firms underreported true scale of sewage pollution for 10 years, which allowed them to set higher bills, tribunal told
The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024 Farage says Tory brand is ‘bust’ as other Reform UK speeches target immigrants, drag queens, vegans and more – as it happened Lee Anderson, Richard Tice and Nigel Farage give speeches at Reform party conference
The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024 Thames Water warns its cash may run out as soon as December Creditors may ease repayment terms to safeguard their current loans as troubled utility fights for survival
The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2024 Thames Water trying to stay afloat by rewriting loan deals, says source Firm in £15bn debt books November high court dates in effort to extend ‘liquidity runway’
The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2024 Labour in apparent disarray over Thames cleanup plan Minister approved Thames Water project at location prioritised by Sadiq Khan for wild swimming
Evening Standard · Sep 18, 2024 Sir Keir Starmer 'could allow water bill rises across country' to pay for Thames Water bailout New laws would give the government the power to raise bills to prop up Thames Water if a buyer cannot be found
Evening Standard · Sep 16, 2024 Safety concern as Greenway cycle route in east London is closed for 18 months Campaigners say Thames Water should have given time for diversion route to be made car-free