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Yesterday, a major march in London aimed to put more pressure on the Govt. to deal more quickly & more extensively with the crisis in England provided water sector.... will they respond with further action(s)?
I'm not holding my breath.... without the closure & reconfiguration of OfWat alongside re municipalisation of the water sector, resolution of the crisis looks unlikely, and its not clear Labour has an appetite for either!
@ChrisMayLA6 Regrettably, the impression the government has given is that anything that offends their big business funders, is unacceptable to them. The NI increases was aimed at small businesses, many big ones don't employ many; their subcontractors do that, so the cost is minimal to them.
Sorting out waste water, and the clean water industries, traditionally seperate and organised as seperate businesses in the water companies need mutualisation or some form of return to LA ownership.
@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6 the two main publicly owned ones in Scotland and South Wales aren't immune from polluting waterways themselves
@John_Loader @ChrisMayLA6 that's why combining the clean water and dirty water businesses was always crazy. Sewers arose out of the ancient duty of LAs to arrange the safe disposal of waste from households in their patch. The clean water businesses were in metropolitan areas big private businesses selling piped water. The councils took over when they went bust after delivering bad water.
Remember Hyder bust Welsh Water, despite inheriting no debt, UU run the dirty side in Wales.....
@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6 Severn Trent N Wales