The regulator is investigating UK's biggest privatised water company, Thames Water has reportedly diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean ups to bonuses and share dividends. This is the same company that's had its begging bowl out for increased charges to their monopolised customers and extra finance to prevent re-nationalisation (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/12/regulator-investigates-thames-water-over-delayed-environmental-schemes). This isn't anything new. It's the standard modus operandi of the water companies. Increase debt, to have 'disposable' money and use it for their own life-style improvement. Fill the rivers with faeces, risk contaminating tap water and hardly rush to fix leaks! It only seems to have occurred to them recently that climate change will involve a modicum of forward planning.
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