Thames Water’s boss Sarah Bentley has stepped down with immediate effect, a few days after it emerged that the leakage rate from the company’s pipes was at a five-year high and she gave up her annual bonuses over its environmental track record.
The UK’s largest water company, which has 15 million customers in London and the Thames Valley, announced that Bentley would be replaced by Alastair Cochran, the finance chief, and Cathryn Ross, the former boss of the water watchdog Ofwat, as joint interim chief executives.
