UK peeps:
Have you noticed a change in the quality of your water?
During the #Brexit campaign problems with the supply chains were dismissed as Project Fear, but one of the things that the water companies spoke about was a future lack of water treatment chemicals.
I've just had to descale my coffee machine for the second time this year, and i realised that all of the taps in my flat are suffering from increased limescale since 2020.
@ChrisMayLA6 they ain't getting a penny off of us any more, they can have a bucket of our shit instead
Parliament will be recalled tomorrow to discuss the future of #BritishSteel.
The same will not be true for #ThamesWater.
That will go down the pan
Trump’s tariffs may be reduced but their impact will be felt in the UK and beyond https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/donald-trump-tariffs-impact-uk-beyond #USeconomicgrowthandrecession #Trumpadministration #Economicgrowth(GDP) #Internationaltrade #Globaleconomy #Interestrates #Trumptariffs #NatWestGroup #ThamesWater #Economics #Inflation #Business #Fintech #Tariffs #Shein #Bonds
My, so glad our Government is standing up for us little people against the big water companies..../s
Surely #ThamesWater will only be made worse by a giant US private equity firm.
FFS, end the madness and #NationaliseThamesWaterNow
BBC News - Thames Water picks private equity firm as preferred buyer
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crldrylyy9do
How do we renationalise after 40 years of privatisation, minimum investment in infrastructure and complete failure to fix the leaks?
It will be incredibly expensive on taxpayers. But if we don’t…how long will it be before Londoners die of cholera and typhoid, while ‘profit’ is still extracted from #ThamesWater for shareholders?
Left is now #Green Party not #Labour.
Since 1989 £7 billion paid to #ThamesWater shareholders instead of upgrading the Victorian sewage system.
#Thatcher thought she could have her cake and eat it. Get the cost of overhauling national infrastructure off the government’s balance sheet, while overseeing progress.
Only one element happened…and her city mates got rich
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/03/green-party-co-leader-calls-for-renationalisation-of-thames-water-during-sewage-works-visit/?
Go Brexit, cover everything with shit.
But at least the Shareholder get their payout, that's all that matters./s
By any measure, #ThamesWater is a failed business as it cannot function without government support (i.e. subsidies).
If you or I "invest" (AKA "gamble") on the stock market we're always warned that our investments can go down as well as up.
Thames Water should be nationalised with no recompense to shareholders who must have known the risk of business failure when they invested 
Steven Reed on ##BbcQuestionTime says it will cost £100 billion to renationalise #ThamesWater
Nonsense, you just issue public bonds to the shareholders
Whatley on #BbcQuestionTime refers back to when #Thameswater was publically owned and says that every time the government's budgets are put under pressure, there was difficulty. In so much as shall we spend more money on The NHS or shall we spend more money on the water companies and she said it was under invested
But this is not true.
Thames Water returned a profit every single year for ten years before Thatcher sold it
@NorthantsGreens Customers should go on a payment strike and destroy the company like we are destroying Tesla
Green activists try to make citizen’s arrests of #ThamesWater executives
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/18/green-activists-try-to-make-citizens-arrests-of-thames-water-executives? #WaterPollution #SewagePollution #DirectAction
7 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot
I am watching a documentary about #ThamesWater one of the managers is leaving. For a 'joke', someone has left a plastic poo in the corridor. They are all laughing
I am furious.
1/4 of the UK's population relies upon #ThamesWater for a commodity it can't do without.
