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British Labour still hopes for the market
Ministers are still understood to be hopeful that a “private market solution” can be found under which Thames (and Southern) can restructure its finances without government intervention, the newspaper...
England: Shipping water from Norway?
One of the private water companies in England permanently in the headlines for the sewage scandal is Southern Water, which serves 4.7mn customers. Now, the company is in discussions with a private sup...
UK: March for Water has to change date
Due to a recently announced event scheduled to take place in Central London on 26th Oct, & for public safety, the organizers have made the extremely difficult decision to move the march to 3rd of ...
UK: Sludge fertiliser with forever chemical
Private water and wastewater companies in the UK are putting profits and shareholder dividends high above public health. With the never ending release of sludge into rivers and beaches that is more th...
UK: Customers paid millions for sewage
Six water companies overcharged customers between £800m (€960m) and £1.5bn (€1.8bn) by “significantly or systematically” underreporting the true scale of their sewage pollution of rivers and waterways...
UK: Re-privatisation of water
Prem Sika, Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield and a Labour member of the House of Lords, states on the website Left Foot Forward: “We are...
UK billpayers tricked into stealth bailout?
The mess with private water companies in England and Wales seems to have no end – and the new Labour government looks set to let them off the hook. The Guardian reports: “Billpayers in Eng...
We support the March for Clean Water
British citizens are suffering the consequences of years of privatisation and profiteering. Private companies have turned water from a source of life for all to a source of profit for a few. While Bri...
Flood the Streets! March for Clean Water
Did you know that over 90% of England’s freshwater habitats are in unfavourable condition, blighted by agri-pollution, over-abstraction and raw sh💩t? 😡 Enough is ENOUGH. A growing coalition of NGOs,...