1/ This is what we're up against: the Environment Agency warns parts of England could run out of water by 2050.
The National Audit Office is blunter: demand may exceed supply by 2034, less than a decade away, without urgent action.
We're already at five-to-midnight on the water doomsday clock.
The National Audit Office is blunter: demand may exceed supply by 2034, less than a decade away, without urgent action.
We're already at five-to-midnight on the water doomsday clock.
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During 35 years of privatised water, no new reservoirs have been built. Worse, 25 have been sold off.
Andrew Sells, ex-Chair of Natural England, says water companies are putting profits before water resilience.
Our crumbling infrastructure is losing 3 billion litres of water daily, 20% of the supply.
Ofwat set a target to halve leakage by 2050. But in 2023, over half of firms missed their own targets. In fact, most saw an increase in annual leakage.
Ofwat relies on self-reporting for leakage.
Welsh Water was caught misleading the regulator about leakages for five years.
The fine? Only £40m - a refund of just £10 per customer. No real accountability.
We need to reduce the water we take out by 480 million litres a day by 2045 to protect nature.
Defra leaves it to companies to promote cutting household water consumption. Unsurprisingly, it continues to rise.
Since privatisation, water companies have paid out £85bn in dividends.
However, the expert National Drought Group say the companies' plan after the driest spring in 69 years is to « simply pray for rain ».
And as long as water is run for profit, not people, our basic needs will always come second.
It’s time to bring water back into public hands.
If you agree, join the fight: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/we-can-do-it-better?source=bluesky&
Absolute Tory shite.
Nobody trusts water companies to work in our interest.
Given there huge debt piles they ar now not in a position to ever deliver what we need
I believe the aim has to be to renationalise, and prepare a message for the public that huge investment is needed