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However, most pay for water and sewerage services as part of their council tax, with charges linked to their council tax band. Average bills will rise by £35.95 in 2024/25, according to Scottish ...
In July 2023, Thames Water was fined £3.3m after discharging undiluted sewage into two rivers, the Gatwick Stream in Sussex and the River Mole in Surrey, killing more than 1,400 fish in October 2017. [109] In 2022, according to a BBC investigation, Thames Water illegally discharged sewage hundreds of times on days when it was not raining.
July 10, 2023 at 7:34 AM. ... Thames Water, which has a £14 billion ($17.9 billion) debt pile, anticipates that an extra £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) of equity funding will be needed in the five ...
The regional water authorities were not only in charge of water supply and sanitation, but also of water resources management, thus opening the possibility of conflicts of interest since the same institution was in charge of abstracting water and discharging wastewater on the one hand, and controlling these same abstractions and discharges on ...
The Water Services Regulation Authority, or Ofwat, is the body responsible for economic regulation of the privatised water and sewerage industry in England and Wales.Ofwat's main statutory duties include protecting the interests of consumers, securing the long-term resilience of water supply and wastewater systems, and ensuring that companies carry out their functions and are able to finance them.
Sewage spills in the UK hit a record high in 2023, amplifying public anger at the state of the country's dirty rivers and the private companies responsible for the pollution, such as the country's ...
The peak energy consumption of the plant is 17.6 MW in worst-case conditions, and the average power consumption was estimated at 14 MW, which results in an energy usage of 2.27 kWh per cubic metre of water produced. [12] In 2022, Thames Water revised the usable output of the plant down to 100 megalitres per day, because of "unrealistic ...
In July, Thames told the industry regulator Ofwat that it wanted to increase annual bills by 23% between 2025 and 2030. Since then, Thames has said it needed to raise bills by 53%.