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Although earlier small-scale water supply operations existed, the New River Company was the first water supply company and is the earliest direct ancestor of Thames Water today. [ 1 ] During the 1850s, John Snow and William Farr 's identification of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak provided a stimulus for the better treatment of sewage.
Beckton Sewage Treatment Works, formerly known as Barking Sewage Works, is a large sewage treatment plant in Beckton in the east London Borough of Newham, operated by Thames Water. Since construction first began in 1864, the plant has been extended numerous times and now covers over 100 hectares (250 acres) - the largest sewage treatment works ...
Thames Water, which has a £14 billion ($17.9 billion) debt pile, anticipates that an extra £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) of equity funding will be needed in the five years to 2030 to help it ...
A group of Thames Water’s lenders has called on more firms to help foot the bill for a £1.5 billion cash injection designed to give the struggling water company a temporary lifeline.
Britain’s biggest water company currently has only enough funding to see it through to the end of May next year, and is scrambling for fresh cash. Thames Water to start fundraising talks in ...
Water is abstracted from the River Thames downstream of Penton Hook Weir at up to 200,000,000 imp gal (910,000,000 L; 240,000,000 US gal) [8] and flows via the 1.26 km Laleham Aqueduct to a pumping station (51°24'56.0"N 0°28'36.9"W) at the western embankment of the reservoir. The pumping station lifts water into the reservoir.
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 ...