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Thames Water saw a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half as its debts continued to spiral. The company reported 359 so-called category one to three pollution incidents in the six ...
The embattled Thames Water saw a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half of the year as its debts continued to swell. The UK's biggest water firm reported 359 so-called category one ...
Thames Water has been at the centre of growing public outrage over the extent of pollution, rising bills, high dividends, and executive pay and bonuses at the UK’s privatised water firms.
In June 2018 regulators made Thames Water pay £65 million to customers, among other reasons because they failed to repair leaks. [81] In June 2023, Freedom of Information requests revealed that Thames Water leak levels were at their highest for five years. It was estimated to be losing 630 million litres (140 million imperial gallons) a day. [82]
In 1989 the Thames Water Authority was partly privatised, under the provisions of the Water Act 1989 [3] with the water and sewage responsibilities transferring to the newly established publicly quoted company of Thames Water, and the regulatory, land drainage and navigation responsibilities transferring to the newly created National Rivers Authority which later became the Environment Agency.
Christopher Phillip Anthony Weston (born 5 January 1964) [1] is a British businessman. In January 2024 he became chief executive of Thames Water. [2]He is the former chief executive of Aggreko, a FTSE 250 Index company, and a former managing director of British Gas, one of the Big Six energy suppliers in the United Kingdom.
Thames Water has already called for permission to raise bills by 53 per cent, bringing them to an average of £667 a year by 2030. The company said Ofwat’s proposals will render its five-year ...
Most drinking water consumed in London comes from the River Thames and the River Lee. Approximately 70% of all water supplied to London is taken from the Thames upstream of Teddington Weir. [6] Greater London is currently supplied by four companies: Thames Water (76% of population), Affinity Water (14%), Essex and Suffolk Water (7%) and SES ...