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FOUND: 5 - What They Never Told You

Southern Water boss handed £183,000 bonus despite huge rise in bills

Award for Lawrence Gosden comes after criticism of business plan and attempts to increase bills by 73%

The Guardian - UK

£1.2bn plan to turn sewage waste into drinking water branded a ‘white elephant’

Southern Water says it wants to protect rare chalk streams, but campaigners say it could pollute the Solent

The Guardian - UK

Water bills to rise by average of £94 over next five years in England and Wales

However, some regions will see greater increases – with Southern Water bills rising by £183, or 44 per cent

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Cheap sales, debt and foreign takeovers: how privatisation changed the water industry

Familiar concerns over bosses’ pay, prices and borrowing emerged in the utilities’ early years in private hands, with UK dubbed the ‘dirty man of Europe’

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer urged to act on water bill rises in England and Wales

Stephen Fry and other celebrities join unions and activists in calling on PM to launch review of water ownership

The Guardian - UK

Water firm seizes stake in Devon sewage protester’s home over unpaid bills

Imogen May has withheld payments since 2019 and is thought to be one of thousands boycotting water charges

The Guardian - UK

Only three water company prosecutions in England and Wales for unfit drinking supply

Figures show breaches have rarely led to prosecution by Drinking Water Inspectorate since 2021

The Guardian - UK

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Ofwat poised to refuse most suppliers’ requests for big price rises

Water watchdog decision on bills in England and Wales delayed until after election, as Thames crisis looms

The Guardian - UK

Fish deaths in England’s rivers rise tenfold in four years

More than 216,000 fish died in 2022-2023, when England recorded a 54% increase in sewage spills

The Guardian - UK

Water investors have withdrawn billions from private companies, analyst claims

Shareholder investment in top 10 water and sewage firms has decreased by £5.5bn since privatisation. while dividend payments have increased to £72.8bn

The Independent UK

About 2,000 homes in Hastings on fifth day with no water supply

Most of 32,500 properties back online after mains pipe burst but hundreds to go without for another night

The Guardian - UK

Water restored to 25,000 properties after East Sussex main burst

Around 7,500 properties are still without water, though supplies to about 6,000 are expected to be restored this evening

Evening Standard

Mains water begins returning to 32,500 East Sussex properties after pipe burst

Southern Water says supplies coming back to St Leonards-on-Sea and Hastings now that rupture in woodland area has been fixed

The Guardian - UK

More than 30,000 properties without water three days after main burst in Sussex

Southern Water said in an update on Sunday it was ‘very sorry’ that people in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, and in Westfield were still without water.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Regulators urged to act over water companies’ record sewage discharge

Government asked to put ‘people and planet before profits’ as analysis shows potential illegal discharging of raw sewage

The Guardian - UK

Southern Water fined £330,000 for stream pollution that killed 2,000 fish

Waste flowed into Hampshire stream for 20 hours because of faulty equipment at pumping station

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UK’s Southern Water reports huge leak - hundreds of thousands of customer’s data stolen by hackers

Southern Water hackers were so thirsty for data, they tried to drain the company database

The Guardian - UK

‘Elevated’ risk of hackers targeting UK drinking water, says credit agency

Moody’s warning over hacking’s effect on debts may bolster water utilities’ plans to hike bills to cover needed investments

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Revealed: watchdogs and water bosses had dinner at private London club to discuss future

Exclusive: Meal attended by Environment Agency and Ofwat chairs attacked as outrageous example of ‘regulatory capture’

The Guardian - UK

Water firms use up to 28% of bill payments to service debt in areas of England

As English water companies plan to hike bills, the Guardian reveals customers are paying a high price for combined debts of £60bn

The Guardian - UK

‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England

Exclusive: Experts ‘alarmed’ after potentially toxic chemicals detected in sources at 17 of England’s 18 water firms

The Guardian - UK

Raw sewage discharged into Chichester harbour for over 1,200 hours in a month

Campaigners say Southern Water outflows into protected wildlife site are an ‘assault on the environment’

The Guardian - UK

Ofwat warns over financial health of four water suppliers in England

Thames Water and Southern Water among firms urged to take action to secure long-term finances

The Guardian - UK

‘I won’t pay for them to pollute my river’: why a UK water bills boycott is growing

Angler Mike Deacon is among a growing number of customers refusing to pay water companies as they protest against sewage spillages and contamination

The Guardian - UK

Watchdog berates Thames Water and Southern Water over level of complaints

Two utilities deemed ‘standout poor performers’ with so many complaints it skews industry’s overall performance

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