The fine is only big enough if it breaks them and puts them back into Public Hands
Anything less is doing this parasites a favour
The Guardian · Thames Water hit with £123m of fines over sewage and dividend breaches
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I've just had a text from Essex & Suffolk water re a supply interruption. I live in Northumberland, 300 miles away.
What are these bastards doing with our personal details? Sharing them out by the look of things. And then being (predictably) untrustworthy and generally inept with them.
#Captalism #Privacy #WaterCompanies
Matt @MattCartoonist @telegraph on the #WaterCompanies - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Looking at the latest water company scandals
https://youtu.be/wdjzJ9dCxnc?si=qI2NsmFDpOOnpk0h
#watercompanies #watercompany #watercompanycrisis #sewage #SewageScandal
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@NorthantsGreens they literally expect us to tolerate this shit while the Shareholders get their profit
Extra rain means extra faeces in the water, hurrah for Privatisation! /s
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My, so glad our Government is standing up for us little people against the big water companies..../s
Unbelievable.
"Thames Water is asking to be spared billions of pounds of costs and fines over the next five years and heap more on to bills so it can attract new investors."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/14/thames-water-asks-ofwat-to-be-spared-fines-costs
The Guardian · Thames Water begs to be spared fines and costs, warning bidders will walk away
Robert Macfarlane: We shouldn’t have to risk our health every time we get in the water - https://goodlawproject.org/update/robert-macfarlane-we-shouldnt-have-to-risk-our-health-every-time-we-get-in-the-water/ "#Watercompanies are drowning in debt and pumping out #sewage. It’s time for Labour to get serious on water pollution."
Good Law ProjectRobert Macfarlane: We shouldn't have to risk our health every time we get in the water | Good Law ProjectWater companies are drowning in debt and pumping out sewage. It’s time for Labour to get serious on water pollution.
"Labour Loses Election"
"We did very little to help people, and they repaid us in kind. But we're all rich, so we don't care! Enjoy Fascism!"
Thames Water credit rating slashed as administrators approached - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/24/thames-water-credit-rating-slashed-as-administrators-approached "Moody’s changes outlook on firm from stable to negative as financial plans ‘do not provide attractive risk-return balance’ " #watercompanies
The Guardian · Thames Water credit rating slashed as administrators approached
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Southern Water: Water industry price rises explained | Hampshire Chronicl
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24806922.southern-water-water-industry-price-rises-explained/
#WaterCompanies
#SouthernWater
#WaterBillIncreases
#Water
Hampshire Chronicle · Southern Water: Water industry price rises explained
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/23/revealed-thames-water-diverted-cash-for-clean-ups-to-help-pay-bonuses?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #UK #Water #WaterCompanies #ThamesWater #Profiteering
The Guardian · Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Nobody wants to fix this mess because it would mean depriving some Parasites of a grift, so on the shit keeps flowing.
"People are angry"
You fucking right they are 
The Guardian · ‘These water companies have got a damn nerve’: anger in England as 58,000 homes lose supply while bills surge
Filling in a bit of polling by 38Degrees, on water companies in UK, I found myself writing:
"Our water and sewage system has been, in effect, robbed of past investment. The money that should have funded infrastructure and better service has, instead, ended up in vulture capital and overpayment of executives and dividends. The companies need to have their rules explicitly tightened to include proper investment and targets for clean water, sewage treatment and the future-proofing of infrastructure (including for climate change). There should be stringent punishments for non-delivery and there should be a realistic restorative element (ie the failure to properly invest in the past should be made up for). If companies cannot do this, then their fall in value will enable them to be taken into public ownership and the remedying can be more directly directed by the nation."
#ukPolitics #WaterCompanies #inequality #nationalisation
One of the promises of privatisation is that the free market would bring improved efficiency.
This isn't remotely a free market. In a free market, companies who fail go bust and, if they provided something useful, get replaced by someone who does it better.
This is just legalised extortion.
It really is time to let the water companies go bust and nationalise them.
BBC NewsWater bills set to rise by more than expectedThe regulator will allow higher bills to fund growing costs and investment, the BBC understands.
So if the water companies are fined an amount amounting to less than £10 per customer, but are allowed to put bills up by £94 per customer, I suggest that the fine is not a serious deterrent to lawbreaking.
May I humbly suggest a more appropriate punishment for water companies who break the law would be to fine the directors personally, or for serious breaches, jail them.
That would be an actual deterrent.
BBC NewsWater companies must return £158m on customer bills - OfwatOfwat reviews water companies against metrics including pollution, customer service and leakage.
We want change, we'll be getting this for the next five years while Labour shovel out excuse after excuse for not doing anything about this greed.
They are not on our side, they are on the side of Money. Protest about it and they'll despise you and call you all the names under the sun.
How DARE you question your masters....
The Guardian · Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’
#Bristol & other places considering #driveway #tax, should firstly ensure all new #builds and #new #drives are #constructed with #porous #materials. Then they should have a scheme for replacing #drives. This should be mainly funded by #WaterCompanies (i.e. reduce #shareholder #profits) as they have failed to ensure effective #public #drainage.
Otherwise this is just a #money #grabbing #plan.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/ill-just-dig-up-drive-9443515
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a797a8eed915d07d35b5d8e/pavingfrontgardens.pdf
Bristol Live · Outrage from motorists over proposed driveway taxThe London Mayor wants people billed for concrete driveways which have been linked to increased flood risks
Tories shat in our rivers and lost the Election.
The Environment is the No 1 issue affecting us all, only fools would ignore that now.
So that'll be Reform then.