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Water bills

August 2024

  • Thames Water is blighted by sewage scandals, fines and huge debts.

    Thames Water lobbied Whitehall to press Ofwat on allowing higher bills

  • Thames Water vans parked on a road

    Thames Water says without steep bill increase it’s ‘neither financeable nor investible’

  • New homes are being built in Cheshire

    Water bills must rise if Labour is to hit housebuilding target, industry claims

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Water campaigners are right about enforcement. Labour’s plans are still too vague

    Nils Pratley

  • Privatised water firms are imperilling our health and poisoning our rivers. Act now: flood the streets with rage

    Feargal Sharkey

  • Thames Water barred from billing customers for pension shortfall

July 2024

  • The logo of water company Southern Water seen through a glass of water

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

  • A metered water bill from Water Plus claimed a church owed £500.

    Consumer champions
    Debt collectors are chasing my 84-year-old mother over a water bill

  • The Great Ouse in Bedfordshire after bursting its banks earlier this year. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way – podcast

  • Thames Water, Financial Crisis, Windsor, Berkshire, UK - 05 Jul 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Maureen McLean/Shutterstock (13998271o) Thames Water were out in Windsor fixing leaking pipes today. The Government are considering putting Thames Water back into public ownership for a temporary period if Thames Water are unable to raise enough funds to stop the collapse of the company. David Black the CEO of water regulator OFWAT has said "It shouldn't have allowed privatized utilities to take on so much debt, as it warned that Thames Water will need more than £1 billion ($1.27 billion) to turn itself around". Yesterday Thames Water were fined £3.3m after it discharged sewage into two rivers, killing more than 1,400 fish Thames Water, Financial Crisis, Windsor, Berkshire, UK - 05 Jul 2023

    Paying the price of water companies’ failures

  • Water bills in England and Wales: how much more might you be paying?

  • Thames Water placed in special measures due to ‘significant issues’

  • Rise of £94 in water bills over five years is ‘bitter pill’, says chancellor

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Do not let Thames Water’s bondholders wriggle off the hook

    Nils Pratley

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

June 2024

  • The Great Ouse in Bedfordshire after bursting its banks earlier this year.

    The long read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way

    The long read: Having created a watchdog for the environment, the government took its teeth out and muzzled it. Can public outrage rouse the Environment Agency to action?

May 2024

  • A Thames Water drain cover in Windsor

    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

April 2024

  • Thames Water manhole cover

    Thames Water’s extra £1.1bn will do little to steady the sinking ship

    The debt-riddled firm has updated its five-year spending plans but still needs to convince the regulator and investors
  • A white Thames Water logo on a blue background

    Thames Water has six weeks to agree survival plan with Ofwat

    While the company believes it has cash to last 15 months, it will have to move fast to stave off insolvency
  • Two people walk past Thames Water maintenance sign

    Thames Water is everyone’s problem and time is running out to fix it

    Ailing water company hopes higher bills can save it, but that depends on Ofwat agreeing its salvage plans are workable
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