Thames Water-linked firm paid £14m in dividends despite concerns over group Kennet Properties sells off Thames Water land, whose owner, Kemble Water, has warned it would not be able to pay a £190m loan The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024
‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat Campaigners call for the whole regulatory system to be replaced after Observer analysis finds watchdog spent more than £25m with consultancies The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2024
Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state Exclusive: Under Whitehall blueprint for water company some lenders could lose up to 40% of their money The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2024
"We're not responsible for telling you whether you can swim in the rivers or not" - shocking message from water company polluting a world-famous river Water company on the defensive after discharging dangerous levels of waste into the Thames Advnture · Apr 18, 2024
IMF’s Georgieva says border migration is helping US outperform Europe; UK car insurance prices finally falling – as it happened Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2024
Thames Water to add to debt mountain in bid for survival Exclusive: Board to release turnaround proposals on Friday amid uncertainty over future of UK’s biggest and most heavily-indebted water firm The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2024
"Don't even think about wild swimming here" - new study reveals shocking pollution levels in the Thames Water company accused of discharging dangerous levels of waste into the world-famous river Advnture · Apr 16, 2024
Thames Water break-up is a promising idea It is unlikely that the company’s owners will invest more or it will be fully nationalised, but its structure needs a rethink The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2024
Thames Water has six weeks to agree survival plan with Ofwat While the company believes it has cash to last 15 months, it will have to move fast to stave off insolvency The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024
Thames Water is everyone’s problem and time is running out to fix it Ailing water company hopes higher bills can save it, but that depends on Ofwat agreeing its salvage plans are workable The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024
Give water company board members a taste of filthy rivers Letters: Wendy Bradley suggests a grand water downing ceremony presided over by the king for Thames Water and others. Plus a letter from Pete Lavender The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2024
Australia’s Macquarie among lenders to Thames Water’s parent company Controversial investment bank could play important role in fate of Britain’s biggest water firm The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2024
Count Binface unveils manifesto for London Mayoral election including Thames Water pledge The satirical political candidate has unveiled a list of 24 policies - with some more extreme than others Evening Standard · Apr 8, 2024
Thames Water funding crisis: the key players in the row over its future In latest twist to finger-pointing standoff, debt-stricken supplier’s parent company has defaulted on loan The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2024 Thames Water parent tells creditors it has defaulted on debt Missed interim payment raises prospect of restructure or collapse of troubled company
Evening Standard · Apr 5, 2024 Thames Water owner Kemble defaults on £400 million of bonds It failed to make some interest payments when they were due
Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2024 OPINION - Will the government be forced to hold its nose and nationalise Thames Water? In his bestselling book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly referenced the '10,000-Hour Rule', based on research by Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson. Despite its subsequent controversy, the rule's premise is in someways fairly pedestrian: achieving greatness in any skill requires time and effort.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2024 Chinese lenders key as Thames Water’s owner seeks time to pay debts ING, AIB and two Chinese state-owned banks expected to agree extension on £190m loan
Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2024 OPINION - Thames Water wants to raise prices 40%, spill more sewage and not be fined - after lining shareholders' pockets Early last year, regulator Ofwat at last woke up to the exploitation of the complex financial structures around our water companies. Holding companies had been allowed to borrow against water firms’ assets to increase dividends to shareholders.
Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2024 OPINION - The Standard View: Thames Water's sewage failings leave a nasty smell It is a rudimentary lesson of statistics that correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Otherwise, Thames Water customers might reasonably conclude that the higher their bills rise, the more sewage the company pumps into London’s rivers.
Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2024 London's great stink: Sewage flowed into capital's rivers for almost 10,000 hours last year Thames Water customers will see a huge rise in bills this week despite sewage being pumped into London rivers for more than 9,773 hours in 2023
The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2024 One in three UK water workers verbally abused amid sewage fury, GMB finds Exclusive: public anger over river pollution affecting employee safety, union survey suggests
Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2024 Thames Water 'dumped raw sewage into river for 53 days in a row killing everything', residents claim Residents in an Oxfordshire village have claimed the sewage has blighted their lives
The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2024 Look at the Thames and know the time for metaphors is over: our politics is drowning in effluent It took a sewage-plagued Boat Race to do it, but people can now see the appalling state of England’s water industry and waterways, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2024 Thames Water owner bond slumps to record lows amid uncertainty over firm Fall to 14.4p comes after shareholders said they were unwilling to inject further funds