04 July 2023 - Thames Water fined over sewage spill
Thames Water fined more than £3m over sewage spill that turned rivers black near Gatwick Airport
(Sky News 04/07/23)
Sewage was pumped into rivers for around six and a half hours after a faulty storm pump at a site in Crawley went "unnoticed".
Why is Thames Water in so much trouble?
Dearbail Jordan and Ben King (BBC News 04/07/23)
Thames Water may have to be taken over by the government if it runs out of money. But why is the UK's largest water company facing a crisis - and are other firms facing similar problems?
The Guardian view on private water companies: a disaster made in the City
Editorial (The Guardian, 02/07/23)
England has become an asset management society with predictably calamitous results.
Renationalising Thames Water would be a gamble – but there is another way to help clean up the industry
J. Robert Branson and Phil Tomlinson (The Conversation, 03/07/23)
The privatisation of water companies in England and Wales was supposed to bring efficiency and investment to a vital sector that had been starved of public funding. But since 1989, the industry has failed to invest sufficiently in replacing antiquated pipes and sewage treatment systems.
Thames Water Headquarters. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0.