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Thames Water secures £3bn emergency bailout – here's what it means for your bills and your wallet
Water crisis

Thames Water secures £3bn emergency bailout – here's what it means for your bills and your wallet

Thames Water has secured a government bailout to deal with its extensive debts. Here's what it means for water bills
'Complete disaster': Outrage as Thames Water reports huge spike in sewage spills… again
Thames Water

'Complete disaster': Outrage as Thames Water reports huge spike in sewage spills… again

Water companies' £158m fine over sewage pollution prompts fresh calls for nationalisation
A dripping tap against dappled sunlight
Sewage pollution

Water companies' £158m fine over sewage pollution prompts fresh calls for nationalisation

Sewage pollution levels in this river are 100 times safe 'limits'. The fight is now on to clean it up
Sewage pollution

Sewage pollution levels in this river are 100 times safe 'limits'. The fight is now on to clean it up

Letters: Water bosses should be made to do Cersei's 'walk of shame' from Game of Thrones
Letters

Letters: Water bosses should be made to do Cersei's 'walk of shame' from Game of Thrones

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Outcry after water companies say they can't fix the sewage crisis without hiking bills: 'Insulting'
homeless heatwave
Water bills

Outcry after water companies say they can't fix the sewage crisis without hiking bills: 'Insulting'

Inside the Big Issue: The glorious rise and rise of the Paralympics
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The glorious rise and rise of the Paralympics

Windermere was flooded with 8,787 hours of raw sewage last year. One man is fighting back
Sewage pollution

Windermere was flooded with 8,787 hours of raw sewage last year. One man is fighting back

'It's a scandal': Outcry from Brits to nationalise water companies as bills set to rise – again
Water

'It's a scandal': Outcry from Brits to nationalise water companies as bills set to rise – again

Water companies paid shareholders £377 for every hour they pumped sewage into seas, study finds
Pollution

Water companies paid shareholders £377 for every hour they pumped sewage into seas, study finds

Calls to nationalise Thames Water as Brits face 40% increase in bills: 'A con and a disgrace'
Water bills

Calls to nationalise Thames Water as Brits face 40% increase in bills: 'A con and a disgrace'

Time has been vital for my success – I can't imagine losing three hours a day walking for water
Ariyon Bakare

Time has been vital for my success – I can't imagine losing three hours a day walking for water

Apoocalypse Now: Joe Lycett vs Sewage on Channel 4 shames UK's privatised water companies
Joe Lycett on a toilet
TV

Apoocalypse Now: Joe Lycett vs Sewage on Channel 4 shames UK's privatised water companies

Activists welcome Labour crackdown on water bosses over illegal sewage dumps – but warn it's not enough
Water pollution

Activists welcome Labour crackdown on water bosses over illegal sewage dumps – but warn it's not enough

'Clean up the filth!': Labour wants to block bonuses for water firm bosses over sewage dumping
sewage discharges have been recorded in the Lake District
Sewage pollution

'Clean up the filth!': Labour wants to block bonuses for water firm bosses over sewage dumping

'Wake up and smell the s**t': Sewage dumped into UK waterways over 1,000 times a day, report says
Water pollution

'Wake up and smell the s**t': Sewage dumped into UK waterways over 1,000 times a day, report says

Thames Water forced to pay back millions to customers over pollution – but campaigners say it doesn't go far enough
Environment

Thames Water forced to pay back millions to customers over pollution – but campaigners say it doesn't go far enough

UK government may have broken law over sewage pumping. Could this be a 'turning point'?
Water pollution

UK government may have broken law over sewage pumping. Could this be a 'turning point'?

Sewage spills: Customers could receive hundreds of millions in compensation as water companies face new lawsuit
Sewage spills

Sewage spills: Customers could receive hundreds of millions in compensation as water companies face new lawsuit

‘The grubby tentacles are everywhere’: This UK sewage discharge map shows where waste is being pumped into nature reserves
Red dots across a map of England and Wales show the breadth of sewage spills in protected areas
Pollution

‘The grubby tentacles are everywhere’: This UK sewage discharge map shows where waste is being pumped into nature reserves

Senior Tory Damian Green says swimming in sewage ain’t what it used to be, to the absolute horror of viewers
Damian Green Peston sewage
Water pollution

Senior Tory Damian Green says swimming in sewage ain’t what it used to be, to the absolute horror of viewers

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‘People are angry’: Will sewage sway how people vote in local elections?
Image on the left shows a polling station, image on the right shows river pollution
Water Pollution

‘People are angry’: Will sewage sway how people vote in local elections?

‘Record’ fine imposed on polluter is just 0.3% of pre-tax profits
River Pollution

‘Record’ fine imposed on polluter is just 0.3% of pre-tax profits

Your views on our water supply: wrecked by privatisation
Letters

Your views on our water supply: wrecked by privatisation

Meet the woman with a 'radical' solution to water pollution
Lizzie Carr, founder of Planet Patrol, sitting on a paddle board
Water pollution

Meet the woman with a 'radical' solution to water pollution