Privatised Water has no place in modern Britain.
Steve Barclay MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food, And Rural Affairs
Untreated sewage was discharged into English waterways for more than 3.6 million hours in 2023.
In 2022, water companies paid out £1.4 billion in dividends - even as 11 of them were fined in the same year for missing performance targets.
Why? Private companies’ mismanagement and underinvestment on essential infrastructure - because their priority is profit, not our planet, and not our people.
And now our government might bail them out - our cash, in their pockets.
In the short-term, join us in calling for the government:
Refuse Thames Water’s request to be allowed to increase bills and limit fines to protect its finances, which would reward mismanagement at the expense of customers and the public.
Put Thames Water into special administration and to transfer its assets and functions to a publicly-owned company.
In the long-term, we want to see all English water companies be brought into public ownership so that our water network can be managed for the benefit of people and planet.
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Untreated sewage was discharged into English waterways for more than 3.6 million hours in 2023. This is the direct result of mismanagement and underinvestment.
Since they were privatised debt-free in 1989, water companies in England have incurred debts of more than £64 billion and paid out £78 billion in dividends.
In 2022, water companies paid out £1.4 billion in dividends - even as 11 of them were fined in the same year for missing performance targets.
Drastic climate change is making flooding and droughts more frequent and more severe, necessitating changes to the way we manage our water system in order to build resilience.
A Government bailout of Thames Water would send a dangerous signal to other utility companies that reckless decisions carry no private risk. There is a better way.
In the short-term, the under-signed demand that the government refuse Thames Water’s request to be allowed to increase bills and limit fines to protect its finances and put Thames Water into special administration and to transfer its assets and functions to a publicly-owned company.
In the long-term, we want to see all English water companies to be brought into public ownership so that our water network can be managed for the benefit of people and planet.