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Time To Take Water Back......
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Yes I am generally a Tory and did agree with some nationalisation but NOT water. Time to take water back into public ownership by force. They are up to their eyeballs because they've just given it away to share holders etc. Gawd elp us I sound like a lefty but in this area I do think Labour should do what they are famous for and nationalise water without compensation, they've had enough dosh out of us.
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a core utility should not be owned by private interests. a private company exists to create value for those who own it... there are many areas of the economy where this works excellently but not with a basic utility like water
11:53 Tue 09th Jul 2024
Fully approve, if the money can be found, to bring water back into public ownership. Get rid of paying by volume used for domestic users too. Sufficient water is a necessity for health reasons affecting the whole neighbourhood; no one household should feel they have to skimp on it. (Monitoring and investigating apparent excess is fair enough, leaks need to be noted and fixed.)
barry this isn't about limescale! It's about neglect of the infrastructure, sewage getting pumped into rivers and lakes. Cronic under investment in the infrastructure. How can Thames water be £15bn in debt? How? I know because they run it for the benefit of the suits and shareholders. That's wrong, their job is to deliver clean water to the public and not fill our rivers and lakes with sewage because the system can't cope with a rain storm. I don't know why anyone would think this is about limescale.
I doubt that was barry's major moan. Just letting off steam. I'm sure the water company could filter out calcium carbonate along with other "nasties", but it isn't really harmful so it may be more efficient to let consumers who don't want it get their own water softener.
I'm more miffed that, having let the companies lay their pipes in my garden i order that they can connect to my house, they then have the cheek to say responsibility for their maintenance isn't theirs. The connection point where responsibility changes should be some specific "box" inside, near where their pipe enters the house.
Interesting, but Jonathan Reynolds, the new business secretary doesn't want to nationalise Thames Water. Don't know if someone can make this link work:
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