Water industry review will NOT look at privatisation failures
The Labour Party government has announced a review of the water industry and its regulation. Whilst it states it is the ‘largest review of sector since privatisation’ – the review…
Water bills UP just as sewage is UP and boss’s bonuses UP, too
Shit is hitting the fan – or rather, a UK river near you – as water companies gear up to rip off customers even more than they already are. Yes,…
Clive Lewis’s water bill should have been front-page news this week
Labour Party MP Clive Lewis has brought a private members’ bill to the Commons that seeks to solve the issues with our water system. Rather than boardrooms, citizens’ assemblies would…
private water company dumped 140m litres of sewage
United Utilities is a private water company whose current CEO got a pay packet of over £1.4m in 2023/24. And it has “repeatedly dumped millions of litres of raw sewage…
Labour uses cooked up industry stat to stop water nationalisation
The Labour Party has used a sham figure of £90bn to claim that water nationalisation would be too expensive. The water industry paid for the ‘analysis’ that Labour cited in…
Thames Water caught lobbying Labour in new bill-increase scandal
Thames Water know a thing or two about shit. Whether it is pouring it into our disgustingly over-polluted waterways, or shitting all over the public with its creaking infrastructure and…
Thames Water record fine dwarfed by profits last year
The water regulator Ofwat has announced a “record” fine for notorious Thames Water – for illegal sewage leaks, spills, and dumping. Of course, it’s unlikely to bother the toxic water…
National Gas now wholly owned by Thames Water ‘vampire’ bank
The last remaining chunk of National Gas – the network of gas pipes that fuels the entire UK – has just been bought by notorious bank Macquarie. It comes as,…
Steve Reed tried and fails to defend water privatisation
The Tories are out of power now, but their toxic legacy remains. While much of this ‘toxicity’ is figurative, in the case of the environment it’s very much literal, with…
Oxfam reveals the scale of Israel’s weaponisation of water in Gaza
In a new report entitled ‘Water War Crimes’, Oxfam has detailed the extent of what it summarises as Israel’s “systematic destruction and obstruction of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure”, leading…
Conservative Party is now dead in the water
Can you hear that? Listen very carefully. Can you hear it now? That is the sweet sound of Margaret Thatcher turning in her grave as her beloved Conservative Party prepares…
Labour water industry lobbyist connections revealed
As the Labour Party looks set to form the next government after the general election, the party is up to its neck in lobbying connections with the UK’s sewage-scandal-rife water…