#Thames Water

[coreythegremlin]

it's been public knowledge for a long time that the privatised water companies are being looted while they screw over customers. thames water alone has gone £16 billion into debt while failing to invest in infrastructure, at the same time that it paid out billions in dividends to its shareholders. chris weston, it's chief executive, has now received £965,000 in bonuses this year, while in any just system he'd face a jail cell and have his assets seized to help pay for the needed infrastructure investment. a small group of investors and executives get wealthy ripping off ordinary working people and the system protects them, because extracting wealth for private gain is the nature of the capitalist system. the economy should be owned and run by working people to maximise human wellbeing

[stillnaomi]

it's ridiculous that Thames Water is only being fined £104m, and that that has to be paid by the business, not by the people who've been pocketing the dividends while the company systematically failed to invest in infrastructure

not to worry, the government will probably temporarily take it into public ownership before selling it off again 🙄

it's time to take the whole economy into public ownership for good and remove the profit motive

[willcodehtmlforfood]

"Exclusive: Concerns over effect on UK’s finances lead officials to believe utility should be renationalised before general election"

[freenorthnow]

Thames Water is just one of many public utility companies being rewarded for their failure.

Making utilities publicly owned is just common sense, private companies have proven they can't be trusted to take care of them.

[hlohi]

Thames Water - King Krule

Girl this place is evil!

[timharrold]

Invidious In Video (16/18/19.12.24)

[everything-is-interesting-ldn]

3 billion litres of water is lost every day across England and Wales. 

According to Ofwat, this is the lowest level it has ever been. 

Water companies have agreed with Ofwat to reduce leakage by 50% by 2050. 

Here's a look at some of the technology that might help us get there in the next 25 years.

#PoliticsIsInteresting

[skeletonoli]

had an average day in London today (had to rearrange my entire travel plan for the day because a Thames water pipe burst)

[coreythegremlin]

Thames Water is griping about the amount they're allowed to raise bills, and that's because we're in a society where business feels entitled to exploit everyone. in a democracy society, they'd have had their wealth seized and their directors would be doing hard labour on infrastructure, to pay back their debt to society

[fitzrovianews]

Over a hundred mains water leaks every year in Fitzrovia

Goodge Street has been dug up more than 11 times since January 2023 to repairs water mains. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Thames Water are digging holes in Fitzrovia streets a rate of more than twice a week every year to repairs leaks, councillors in Camden have been told. “In Fitzrovia, there are frequent bursts (of varying sizes) leading to between 100 and 150Thames Water road openings in the area…

[nextwavefutures]

Paying for clean water

Maybe it’s time to rethink the way we pay for sustainability investment. Water infrastructure could be the place to start. New post.

I hadn’t really planned to write about the British water industry again, but the current crisis in Thames Water seems to be more than a local political difficulty. The accountant Richard Murphy has a post on his blog which looks beyond the detail of the failure of Thames Water to the wider issue of the “environmental bankruptcy” of the British water sector. The post is a summary of a longer…

[ocelotrevs]

24th Apr 2025 II

Woolwich Arsenal

ig: walkuponacloud

[wachinyeya]

25/03/2025

"The Thames river, 60 years ago declared “biologically dead,” is now one of the world’s cleanest rivers, and there's more progress to come. The Transforming the Thames coalition has just put together a $5 million mission to restore key habitats across the estuary, including marshes and seagrass meadows, and to protect wildlife like the critically endangered European eels, water filtering oysters, porpoises, seahorses, and lapwings." -via fixthenews

[sexhaver]

the official website for the Thames Valley Dowsers is really good. check out their Code of Ethical Conduct too, which includes chestnuts like "be mindful of the likely accuracy and completeness of your dowsing as well as of the effects that your information may have on other people as well as on public opinion generally" (read as: "remember that this is all bullshit so don't make us look stupid by claiming anything definitively")

[miamaimania]

Roni Horn's 'Still Water (The River Thames, for Example)' - A 1999 Meditation on the River's Ever-Changing Nature