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Thames Water: advisers appointed to plan for company’s potential collapse

FTI Consulting seen as frontrunner to advise on placing the utility into a special administration regime

The Guardian - UK

Mayors write to Yorkshire Water with ‘serious concerns’ over undisclosed CEO pay

The region’s four mayors said payments worth £1.3m made to boss Nicola Shaw via an offshore parent company were a ‘fundamental breach of trust’.

Evening Standard

England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds

Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard

The Guardian - UK

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Raw sewage reported ‘seeping’ on to beach from Welsh Water pumping station

Senedd member demands Welsh Water invest in infrastructure after sewage leaked on to West Shore beach

The Guardian - UK

Ofwat appoints interim chief executive as current boss Black steps down

Chris Walters, senior director for the price review, will take the helm from August 30, Ofwat announced on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Ofwat appoints interim chief executive after David Black departure

Chris Walters, senior director for the price review, will take the helm from August 30

The Independent UK

Ofwat chief executive to step down ahead of regulator’s abolition

David Black’s decision comes amid intense scrutiny of water companies and criticism of the sector

The Guardian - UK

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Ofwat chief David Black to step down with regulator set to be abolished

Mr Black, who took over as Ofwat's boss in 2021, decided the time is right for him to pursue new opportunities

The Independent UK

Ofwat chief executive David Black to stand down

Mr Black will leave the role at the end of August with an interim chief executive being appointed in due course, the regulator said.

Evening Standard

Regulator examines £1.3m paid to Yorkshire Water boss via offshore parent company

Sums given to Nicola Shaw will need to comply with rules that ban bonuses for chief executives

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs urge Thames Water to recover £2.5m paid to executives in April

Exclusive: Letter to water company sets out demands, including resolving most severe cases of pollution

The Guardian - UK

Anglian Water to pay £63m over sewage failures

Ofwat finds company breached its legal obligations in how it operated its wastewater treatment works

The Guardian - UK

Anglian Water to pay out £62.8m after wastewater failures

Ofwat said failures by the company led to ‘excessive spills from storm overflows’.

The Independent UK

The UK’s Thames Water Could Be Renationalized - What Lessons Can Be Learned?

A completely privately run public water system is an experiment few countries have decided to try.

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The Guardian - UK

Water chiefs’ pay rises to average of £1.1m despite ban on bonuses and outrage over pollution

Total remuneration at companies in England and Wales – many of them under scrutiny for sewage discharge – was £15m in 2024-25

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘A system set up to fail?’ Readers say Ofwat should go – but can’t agree on whether water should be nationalised

YOUR VIEWS: Readers overwhelmingly support scrapping the regulator, but remain deeply divided over whether fixing the water industry means reforming regulation or returning it to public ownership

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s all a game’ to some politicians, says Labour MP suspended for rebellion over planning bill

Chris Hinchliff says language used is indicative of ‘private schoolboy drinking club’ culture within government

The Conversation

No wonder England’s water needs cleaning up – most sewage discharges aren’t even classified as pollution incidents

England’s privatised water industry may one day be considered a textbook case study of failed corporate responsibility, regulation and governance. The Cunliffe review, the recent report into England’s privatised water industry, concluded that the financial regulator, OfWat, needs to be disbanded and a new water regulator will be introduced.

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The Independent UK

No households fined for breaking hosepipe bans during recent droughts, water firms admit

Exclusive: Calls grow for tougher action on water firms, instead of relying on households to cut demand

The Guardian - UK

‘Broken’ water industry in England and Wales faces tighter controls under new watchdog

Ofwat abolished as ministers adopt Cunliffe review ideas such as sewage map naming and shaming firms

The Guardian - UK

Cunliffe’s reforms for water should have happened 20 years ago

His review goes to the heart of one main problem: the sector’s fragmented, overlapping and inflexible regulatory system

The Guardian - UK

Who will pay for the failure of water bosses? Everyone but them

A harder rain needs to fall on those responsible for the water crisis. Let Thames Water fail – it doesn’t deserve a bailout, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Euronews

UK to create new water regulator after crisis at Thames Water

Britain's Labour government has decided to scrap Ofwat and establish a new watchdog to prevent "abuses of the past."

The Independent UK

Key questions answered on water reforms to protect consumers and environment

The Government is abolishing Ofwat as part of a shake-up of water sector regulation.

The Independent UK

Ofwat to be scrapped as sewage spills hit record levels

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