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  1. Local MP calls for government to nationalise Thames Water

    Southgate and Wood Green MP Bambos Charalambous wants the Labour government to take control of the struggling utility…
    #London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Enfield #BambosCharalambous #Government #nationalisation #ThamesWater
    europesays.com/gbr/london/2087

  2. Yet another burst pipe in Enfield sees hospital water supplies hit again

    Chase Farm Hospital was again forced to rely on mobile water tankers to keep the taps running The…
    #London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Enfield #ChaseFarmHospital #EnfieldRoad #ThamesWater #water #World'sEnd
    europesays.com/gbr/london/2021

  3. @ChrisMayLA6

    Voters want a fighter. Talk is cheap. #Burnham needs to take on a few fights, even if he loses.

    IMO, the quickest win is to put #ThamesWater in special measures, then rush thru legislation to ensure most debt is carried by the investors.

    IMO, gov should only cover debt held by UK pension funds.

  4. @ChrisMayLA6

    Voters want a fighter. Talk is cheap. #Burnham needs to take on a few fights, even if he loses.

    IMO, the quickest win is to put #ThamesWater in special measures, then rush thru legislation to ensure most debt is carried by the investors.

    IMO, gov should only cover debt held by UK pension funds.

  5. @ChrisMayLA6

    Voters want a fighter. Talk is cheap. #Burnham needs to take on a few fights, even if he loses.

    IMO, the quickest win is to put #ThamesWater in special measures, then rush thru legislation to ensure most debt is carried by the investors.

    IMO, gov should only cover debt held by UK pension funds.

  6. @ChrisMayLA6

    Voters want a fighter. Talk is cheap. #Burnham needs to take on a few fights, even if he loses.

    IMO, the quickest win is to put #ThamesWater in special measures, then rush thru legislation to ensure most debt is carried by the investors.

    IMO, gov should only cover debt held by UK pension funds.

  7. @ChrisMayLA6

    Voters want a fighter. Talk is cheap. #Burnham needs to take on a few fights, even if he loses.

    IMO, the quickest win is to put #ThamesWater in special measures, then rush thru legislation to ensure most debt is carried by the investors.

    IMO, gov should only cover debt held by UK pension funds.

  8. Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones
    By Jenny Jones

    I will calmly read all the threatening letters and await the court case against me. But I will take a stand even if our government won’t

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #ThamesWater #Waterbills #Waterindustry #Nationalisation #Utilities #Rivers #Pollution #Water #Householdbills #Politics #UKnews #Environment #TheGuardian #JennyJones

  9. ✅ Zero (0) Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  10. 😮 One (1) Thames water outlet is currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  11. 💩 3 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  12. 💩 9 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  13. 💩 2 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  14. 😮 One (1) Thames water outlet is currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  15. 💩 3 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  16. ✅ Zero (0) Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  17. Andy Burnham’s autumn of pain– podcast
    By Presented by Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker, produced by Ned Carter Miles, music by Axel Kacoutié; the executive producer was Frankie Tobi

    It’s been a month since Andy Burnham became prime minister. And while polls have shown a ‘Burnham bounce’, the coming months will force the new PM into making some tough – and potentially unpopular – decisions that will reveal how serious he is about delivering the changes he believes the country needs. Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker look at the choices facing Burnham

    theguardian.com/politics/audio

    #AndyBurnham #Labour #Politics #Labourpartyleadership #UKnews #ThamesWater #Energybills #Business #Householdbills #Money #Consumeraffairs #Economics #Economicpolicy #TheGuardian #PresentedbyKiranStacey #PeterWalker #producedbyNedCarterMiles #musicbyAxelKacouti #theexecutiveproducerwasFrankieTobi

  18. I am not sure that poisoning your customers (even if they have no choice of the matter of where they purchase it) is a sound long term business proposition. But then extracting money, expatriating it as quickly as possible and loading the ‘vehicle’ with debt has always been a working principle of the privatised English water companies.

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Water #Pollution #England #ThamesWater #Environment #Privatisation

  19. 💩 6 Thames Water outlets are currently discharging waste into UK waterways! #ThamesWater #Bot

  20. ‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought
    By Sandra Laville Environment correspondent

    Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Water #ThamesWater #Pollution #Drought #EnvironmentAgency #Waterindustry #Environment #UKnews #Rivers #TheGuardian #SandraLavilleEnvironmentcorrespondent

  21. Burnham mulls insolvency law shake-up to help bring utilities under public control
    By Helena Horton and Kiran Stacey

    Exclusive: Rules on special administration seen as potential ‘roadblock’ to reshaping how UK’s essential services are run

    theguardian.com/business/2026/

    #ThamesWater #Waterindustry #Utilities #Waterbills #Business #Nationalisation #TheGuardian #HelenaHorton #KiranStacey

  22. RE: mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/117155

    If there's not already, there will soon be wars over access to clean water, and here we are having sold all ours off to parasites and we suffer because of it.

    Andy says "no"

    #WaterCompanies #Nationalisation #ClimateCrisis #UKPol #UKPolitics #ThamesWater #UKPol #UKPolitics

  23. 🤑Thames Water's US hedge fund creditors are pulling every trick in the book to avoid nationalisation.

    But they still want to be allowed to pollute illegally until 2030 without penalty.

    It's absurd. The 16 million people who depend on Thames Water are being treated with total contempt.

    Public ownership now. No excuses, no delays.

    #thameswater #water #publicownership

    theguardian.com/business/2026/

  24. From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
    By Devi Sridhar

    Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Waterindustry #Water #Utilities #Scotland #ThamesWater #Waterbills #Environment #Business #UKnews #Householdbills #TheGuardian #DeviSridhar

  25. Thames Water's creditors say a new Board would "fix the foundations" of the failing utility.

    Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, more like.

    The only thing that will fix the foundations of England's water industry is public ownership.

    Send your MP the facts on Thames Water now: weownit.org.uk/act-now/email-y

    #thameswater #water #publicownership

  26. Thames Water creditors accused of ‘shuffling deckchairs’ with plan for new board
    By Alex Daniel

    Campaigners say proposal for £10bn rescue deal in bid to avoid nationalisation is a ‘cosy stitch-up’

    theguardian.com/business/2026/

    #ThamesWater #Business #Water #Environment #UKnews #TheGuardian #AlexDaniel

  27. #WaterShortage fears as Labour’s first #AIGrowth zone sited close to new #reservoir

    First #datacentre site proposed seven miles from #AbingdonReservoir planned for water-stressed #SouthEastEngland

    by Helena Horton Environment reporter
    Mon 13 Jan 2025

    "Labour’s first artificial intelligence growth zone will be sited close to the UK’s first new reservoir in 30 years, sparking fears that the AI push will add to the 'severe pressure' on water supplies in the area.

    "Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he would hugely increase artificial intelligence capacity and reduce planning restrictions on companies that wanted to build datacentres by setting up '#GrowthZones' with fewer constraints [like #ExportProcessingZones and #FreeTradeZones].

    "The first of these will be in #CulhamOxfordshire, only seven miles from a reservoir planned by #ThamesWater in Abingdon, which was supposed to provide water to people in the severely water-stressed south-east of England. This is the area of the country most at risk of running out of water, according to the Environment Agency. #Oxfordshire has faced particular issues, with areas reliant on #BottledWater during #heatwaves.

    "AI datacentres use a large amount of water, as their servers generate heat. To prevent computer systems overheating and shutting down, the centres use cooling towers and outside air systems, both of which need clean, fresh water. AI consumes between 1.8 and 12 litres of water for each kilowatt hour of energy usage across Microsoft’s global datacentres. One study estimates that global AI could account for up to 6.6bn cubic metres of water use by 2027 – the equivalent of nearly two-thirds of England’s annual consumption.

    "Even without a big increase in AI datacentres, by 2050, England faces a shortfall of nearly 5bn litres of water a day between the sustainable supplies available and the expected demand. This is more than a third of the 14bn litres of water currently put into public supply. The south-east faces a potential deficit of more than 2.5bn litres a day in the same period.

    "AI could wipe out gains made by businesses in reducing their water consumption; the government is seeking a 9% reduction in non-household (business) consumption by 2037-38 from 2019-20 levels, and currently businesses are on course to achieve a reduction of 6.1%.

    Adrian Ramsay MP, Green Party co-leader, said: 'While communities will face #heatwaves, #droughts and water shortages over the coming decades, this strategy locks us into pumping huge amounts of water into AI datacentres. One estimate said AI-related infrastructure may soon consume six times more water than Denmark, a country of 6 million people. What will this mean for residents in water-stressed communities like Culham in Oxfordshire?'"

    Read more:

    theguardian.com/technology/202
    #WaterIsLife #DataCenters #WaterShortages #NoWaterForData #NoWaterForAI #NoNukesForAI #BigData

  28. With the news #ThamesWater is asking for more money to continue failing on #pollution & complaints KPIs, #ProjectTimber #nationalisation plan, originally drawn by Whitehall is fast becoming the only viable exit. Will #Starmer have the guts to follow it through?

    "Forcing lenders to bear financial pain would be highly controversial, given Thames’ creditors include some of the world’s biggest asset managers, include the funds giants USS and Omers".

    theguardian.com/business/2024/