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Bill rises for all companies until 2030 have already been announced by the regulator Ofwat, with Thames Water bills rising from an average £435.56 to £534.79 – a 22.8 per cent increase.
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 crisis engulfing Thames Water, which serves 15 million customers in London and the south-east, comes amid renewed focus on the industry which over the last year has been condemned for sewage ...
Although earlier small-scale water supply operations existed, the New River Company was the first water supply company and is the earliest direct ancestor of Thames Water today. [1] During the 1850s, John Snow and William Farr's identification of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak provided a stimulus for the better treatment of sewage.
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.
The Abingdon Reservoir (also known as the South East Strategic Reservoir Option, or SESRO) is a long-term proposal for fresh water storage for the Home Counties.Located south west of Abingdon, Oxfordshire in the mid-west of the Thames Basin, it is intended to help support water supply provision in the south-east of England.
Thames Water put out a list of areas impacted by the low water or no water pressure – these are: South London , including Lambeth, Brixton and more: SW4, SW8, SW9, SW13, SW14, SW15, SW18, SW19
The Metropolis Water Act 1852 banned this practice, allowing water companies three years to find other sources, but issues with contaminated water persisted. In 1904, London's water suppliers were taken into municipal ownership as the Metropolitan Water Board , which substantially upgraded the water infrastructure, building many new reservoirs.