The Latest Breaking News from Thames Water

Water firms’ profits in England and Wales almost double since 2019, find Lib Dems

Party to call for measures to stop companies prioritising profit over environment at spring conference

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024

Wednesday briefing: How ‘unprecedented’ vet costs have made pets almost unaffordable

In today’s newsletter: As a watchdog says it will investigate ‘unprecedented’ complaints about the cost of owning a pet, here’s how prices got out of control

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024

‘I’ve seen solid waste float by’: Surrey riverside residents try to Stop the Poo

The sewage treatment works at Horley seem to be crumbling, much like owner Thames Water itself

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2024

Hundreds of thousands of Thames Water customers may be unable to pay bills from April

Prediction comes as Britain’s biggest water supplier battles to stabilise its finances

Evening Standard · Feb 28, 2024

Thames Water lobbying government to let it increase bills by 40%

UK’s largest water company also calls for dividend payouts and lower fines for breaches to avoid taxpayer bailout

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024

Bitcoin surges through $60,000 in biggest monthly rally since late 2020 – as it happened

Cryptocurrency buoyed by flows into new ETFs that track the value of bitcoin

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024

Oxfordshire housing development ‘should be blocked due to failing sewage system’

Environment Agency objects to plans for 1,450 new homes, saying Thames Water’s Oxford plant cannot cope with more demand

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024

Thames Water charged me for enough water to make 1m cups of tea

Even though the supplier acknowledges the problem, it hasn’t done anything

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2024

Thames Water forecasts more leaks over next two years than predicted

Revision will pile further pressure on firm to invest in infrastructure amid anger over its sewage-dumping record

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

Ofwat’s scheme to fine poorly performing companies ‘a gimmick’

Lib Dems dismiss plan saying water fines need to go to consumers rather than to the Treasury

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024