#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.

[insidecroydon]

Everything's going up except Starmer and Labour’s poll ratings

Energy prices up, transport fares up, water bills up, Council Tax up… ANDREW FISHER says that the government’s failure to tackle the cost-of-living crisis could have lasting political impact In December last year, Keir Starmer set out his “Plan for Change”, one of the now regular relaunches of his flagging premiership. The Prime Minister set out six “milestones”, the first of which was “raising…

[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]

Top Five for 2024

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[mister-a-z-fell]

Will you and Crowley adopt us Americans and bring us over? The elections are coming up and its looking to be very scary 😓 I would like to leave please

Oh, my dear. I think there are a lot of people feeling the same way and not only in your country. The problem with trying to escape from corruption, cruelty, oppression and incompetence is that those things don't recognise borders. They find their way everywhere.

It's an easy thing to tell you to be brave, strong, and hopeful in the face of dread, and it may feel as if I'm asking the impossible. I know that you're tired. Even so, sometimes you have to stay and fight, or the darkness follows. I hope that you're as safe as you can be, and that there are people close by ready to stand with you. And I know that others reading this understand your fears.

If so, gentle followers, please raise your voice and tell my anonymous friend they aren't alone?

[insidecroydon]

Croydon's 'townie' MP Reed shouted down by angry farmers

Steve Reed OBE, the “townie” environment minister, was exposed as being out of his depth once again when he tried to give a speech to the annual conference of the National Farmers’ Union held in Westminster yesterday. Out of his depth: Streatham and Croydon North MP facing protests from farmers in Westminster yesterday The Labour MP for Streatham and Croydon North, local party members will say,…

[miamaimania]

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