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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 ...
Thames Water Utilities Ltd, trading as Thames Water, is a British private utility company responsible for the water supply and waste water treatment in most of Greater London, Luton, the Thames Valley, Surrey, Gloucestershire, north Wiltshire, far west Kent, and some other parts of England; like other water companies, it has a monopoly in the regions it serves.
Thames Water said profit increased to £75.4 million for the year ending March 31, up on a £30 million loss the year before. Revenue increased 11% to £2.5 billion.
Thames Water customers “are paying less than they otherwise would” due to the “poor operational performance” of the business, Cathryn Ross, the company’s co-interim chief executive, has ...
Through to the late 16th century, London citizens turned to the tidal Thames for much of their non-drinking water. For drinking, due to the brackish and perceptibly poor taste of the Thames, they tended to rely on wells and tributaries rising in around a dozen natural springs on the north side of the Thames, restricting the city's expansion south of the river.
The Thames Water Ring Main (TWRM, formerly the London Water Ring Main) is a system of approximately 80 km (50 mi) of concrete tunnels which transfer drinking water from water treatment works in the Thames and River Lea catchments for distribution within central London. A major part of London's water supply infrastructure, the initial ring was ...
The downgrade for Thames Water bonds indicates the credit agency firm thinks the utilities company is likely to default on its debt and may add to its financial pressures.
The Thames Gateway Water Treatment Works or Beckton Desalination Plant is a desalination plant in Beckton, London, adjacent to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. [1] The plant takes brackish water from the River Thames and converts it into drinkable water through a reverse osmosis process. The first of its kind in the UK, it was built for Thames ...