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Utilities

July 2024

  • A Thames Water construction site in London

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

  • Family washing their hands together in a sink

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

  • A leaking pipe, Thames Water engineers and Thames Water logo overlaid with archive Guardian stories.

    Debt, sewage and dividends: the rising tide of Thames Water’s troubles

  • Pollution and plant debris on the Grand Union Canal at Harefield

    Thames Water fails to complete 108 upgrades to ageing sewage works

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

  • Thames Water to tap investors for funds as it will run out of cash by next June

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

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

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

  • Observer business profile
    ‘I totally understand why people are sceptical’: the co-founder of collapsed energy giant Bulb on his new venture

  • Thames Water accused of ‘chicanery’ over £150m dividend payment

June 2024

  • A young woman in a Surfers Against Sewage wetsuit paddling a surfboard while wearing a gas mask

    Observer business agenda
    Will rising debt cause Thames Water to sink under a Labour government?

  • Thames Water sign at its HQ

    Thames Water board approved £150m payout hours before funding U-turn

  • View of Windermere

    Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first

  • An energy smart meter on a radiator

    EDF, Utilita and British Gas rated worst energy suppliers for customer service

  • Octopus Energy to repay £3bn of state support used to take over Bulb

  • Can Labour clean up England’s dangerously dirty water?

  • Global heating will increase risk of parasite outbreaks, say South West Water owners

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    South West Water owner’s boss should lose all bonuses after Devon parasite outbreak

    Nils Pratley
  • Boss of South West Water’s owner gains £300,000 pay rise

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