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Thames Water reveals £3 billion emergency financing plan to keep it solvent until October 2025

Proposals could provide Thames with up to £3 billion of lifeline cash

Evening Standard

Thames Water launches plan to raise up to £3bn in emergency funding

The struggling utilities giant has put forward the deal amid continued efforts to restructure its significant debt pile.

Evening Standard

New Water Commission must create an environmental enforcer that is feared

The current division of responsibilities between Ofwat, the Environment Agency and Drinking Water Inspectorate hasn’t worked

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New commission may ban English water companies from making a profit

Defra body, created to overhaul system amid public fury, may force firms to be run for public good rather than shareholder returns

The Guardian - UK

Water regulator Ofwat could be abolished over sewage scandal as firms push for bill hikes of up to 84%

Thames Water has asked to hike bills by 54%

Evening Standard

Rail, water, energy: the big projects likely to be in Rachel Reeves’ budget

Chancellor expected to promote range of infrastructure plans to boost economy, including reviving parts of HS2

The Guardian - UK

Water companies ask to raise bills by even more than first planned

Southern Water, Thames Water and others demanded steeper increases than set out earlier this year despite regulator Ofwat trying to reduce rises.

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Water companies push for higher bills again as customers face up to 84% hike

Utilities including beleaguered Thames Water have applied to the regulator, Ofwat, to hike tariffs so they can upgrade their networks

The Independent UK

Thames Water fined £67k for 'unsafe' central London works

Utilities giant ordered to pay out after ‘unsafe’ works left members of public ‘at risk’

Evening Standard

Water companies raise bonuses to £9.1m despite record sewage discharges

Third of total comprises bonuses at Severn Trent as indebted Thames nearly doubles payouts to executives

The Guardian - UK

Water firms ‘laying groundwork’ to appeal against Ofwat bill rise cap, says Moody’s

Credit rating agency expects English and Welsh companies to challenge regulator’s ruling with CMA watchdog

The Guardian - UK

Super sewer: Thames Water customers will pay £25 annual levy for another two decades to fund £4.5bn project

Seven new riverside piers, cycle superhighway reinstated - but tunnel boss won’t be swimming in the Thames, despite Sadiq Khan’s vision

Evening Standard

London's new £4.5bn super sewer opens, but will it clean the Thames?

Four of the tunnel’s 21 sites have now opened, kicking off the Thames’ clean-up operation

Evening Standard

‘They are ruining my life’: how the shadowy world of debt collection can wreck your finances

A stranger’s bill can be passed, in your name, down a chain of companies until it reaches the courts without you knowing anything about it. The result can be catastrophic

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Thames clean-up under way as London’s £4.5bn super sewer opens with filthy spills already being stopped

The first valves at four of a total of 21 sites, which operate like giant gates, have opened along the seven metre-wide tunnel

The Guardian - UK

Don’t indulge the Thames Water whingers next week, prime minister

Labour should stand firm at its investors summit and remind attenders that the UK’s utilities sector is eminently investable

Evening Standard

Water companies ordered to return £158m to customers next year after missing key targets

For the second year in a row, no company achieved the top rating, although four companies did show an improvement from last year.

The Guardian - UK

Southern Water seeks to borrow up to £4bn from investors

Move could increase pressure on utility companies turning to bond markets amid crisis at Thames Water

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Unresolved water complaints in England and Wales rise to near-decade high

Customer disputes over sewage spills, billing mistakes and water meters soar in past year

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The Guardian - UK

Calls for failing English water firms to be taken over using special administration

Government urged to use power to control companies such as Thames Water and reform the industry

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water could be blocked from new debt financing next week

Troubled firm has until 7 October to agree to extension, according to holding company accounts

The Guardian - UK

Labour used water industry analysis to argue against nationalisation

‘Economically illiterate’ Defra letter sent to anti-sewage groups cites 2018 report commissioned by water companies

Evening Standard

OPINION - Thames Water has failed London, it's time to let it go bust — or nationalise it

The longer a scandal rolls on, the harder it is to keep in perspective. It now seems almost normal that we live in a country that pours raw sewage into waterways on a daily basis. When we first heard water companies were releasing filth into rivers and the sea —…

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water credit ratings slashed to lower levels of junk as default fears grow

S&P and Moody’s cut ratings by five notches on risk troubled company will run out of cash

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