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The government is scrambling to put together a plan to rescue Thames Water over increasing fears the company is set to go bust.. The utility giant is struggling under a £14 billion debt pile it ...
There are fears that if Thames Water collapses, Labour will have no choice but to step in and temporarily renationalise the company at an estimated cost of £38bn to the taxpayer. This includes ...
It owns more than 20,000 miles of water mains and more than 68,000 miles of sewers across London, the Thames Valley and the Home Counties, with approximately 8,000 employees.
Thames Water has been at the centre of growing public outrage over the extent of pollution, rising bills, high dividends, and executive pay and bonuses at the UK’s privatised water firms, and Mr ...
In 1989 the Thames Water Authority was partly privatised, under the provisions of the Water Act 1989 [3] with the water and sewage responsibilities transferring to the newly established publicly quoted company of Thames Water, and the regulatory, land drainage and navigation responsibilities transferring to the newly created National Rivers Authority which later became the Environment Agency.
A combined heat and power biogas power station was built. The station used biogas from the sewage to generate by gas engines 2.3 MW of electricity which is sufficient for the sewage works load of 1.8 MW with surplus exported to the National Grid. In addition the power station generates 2 MW of heat for the digester load. [6]
In 1947 the Metropolitan Water Board proposed to construct a new water treatment works between Ashford and Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, (51.41772°N 0.43802°W). The works would draw water from the adjacent Queen Mary Reservoir through a tunnel 100-inches (2.54 metres) diameter or from the Staines Reservoir Aqueduct.
Thames Water has a track record of poor environmental performance, having been fined more than £30 million ($38.4 million) since 2017 for several water pollution incidents, according to the UK ...