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Water

July 2024

  • 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

  • Girls carrying water buckets in Malawi.

    Observer letters
    David Lammy must lead the way on access to clean water

  • The Havant Thicket reservoir will be the first to be built in the UK for three decades

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

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

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

  • Rise in sewage pollution from Thames Water’s ageing treatment works

  • Poor state of Thames Water a ‘critical risk’ to UK, Starmer and Reeves told

  • ‘People are incandescent…’ How sewage spills became a vote-winner for the Lib Dems

  • ‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace

  • Greens to push Labour to ‘be braver’ on climate, sewage and cost of living

  • Ruling paves way for businesses and public to sue water firms over sewage

  • Pass notes
    Chalfont St Giles: why one of England’s best-kept villages absolutely stinks

  • Environment Agency refuses to reveal directors’ possible conflicts of interest

June 2024

  • Blackpool beach last week.

    Observer letters
    Come on in – the water’s full of sewage

  • Rowers on the Henley Mile

    High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

  • signs posted above water fountains read 'do not drink until further notice'

    School food fights
    Kids have a right to water in US schools, but does that water make the grade?

  • Dried-out ground on the edge of the Gaddara Dam, where water levels have dropped

    ‘Whack-a-mole situation’: Algerian officials wrestle with water shortage anger

  • River Wye needs ‘protection zone’, say Greens and Fearnley-Whittingstall

  • Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first

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