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Thames Water

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Lex
    Thames Water has breached its licence to operate. So now what?

    For a start, the regulator must act quickly if it is to retain any shred of credibility

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Thames Water breaches licence conditions with fresh rating downgrade

    London utility edges towards nationalisation after S&P slashes its credit status to ‘junk’

    Thames Water vans
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Infrastructure investment
    USS warns on future investments after Thames Water loss

    Pension fund says writedown of stake in troubled utility will ‘influence’ its approach

    A pedestrian passes a Thames Water vehicle in London
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Thames Water’s credit rating slashed to ‘junk’

    Decision by rating agency Moody’s leaves London’s water supplier teetering

    Pedestrian walks past a van with Thames Water brand
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Investors brace for £10bn of Thames Water debt falling to junk

    Loss of investment-grade status for utility’s safer debt could increase regulatory scrutiny and flood high yield market with bonds

    A pedetsrtain walks past a Thames Water vehicle
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Utilities
    It’s time to pull the plug at Thames Water

    The board has failed to deliver — bring in the Special Administrators

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Explainer
    How bad is the crisis at Thames Water?

    Bills are rising across the country and the UK’s biggest water company is in special measures

    Montage of Thames Water logo, a worker from Thames Water pumping water from a drain
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Thames Water faces break-up threat under new Ofwat measures

    Regulator signs off on limited increase in household bills across the country

    Thames Water vans parked on a road in London
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    UK plans to put failing water companies into ‘special measures’

    Proposals come as South East Water warns it needs investors to put more money into the business

    Surfers hold banners in a protest against water pollution
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Thames Water chief defends bonus amid plan for hefty bill increases

    Struggling utility appeals to regulator Ofwat to approve new business plan

    A rear view of a Thames Water worker with the company logo on the back of his high-visibility top
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Markets InsightSachin Khajuria
    The tipping point for UK water

    A serious reset led by the next government is vital for an industry that delivers this human necessity

    Engineers’ vans parked at the South Woodford pumping station, operated by Thames Water, in London
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Thames Water warns ageing assets pose ‘risk to public safety’

    Supplier to London and southern England says £19bn of assets are failing as Ofwat weighs approving increase in bills

    Mogden sewage treatment works, the third largest in the UK
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Labour does not want to nationalise Thames Water, says shadow minister

    Possible collapse of utility is among crises facing the party should it form the next government

  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK general election 2024
    Public anger over sewage boosts Lib Dems’ chances in key Tory battlegrounds

    Opposition party makes inroads in South East England seats where water pollution has sparked public anger

    Montage of Surfers Against Sewage protester against FT data backdrop
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Thames Water’s fix needs to be fast, not fair

    Lie back and think of England’s infrastructure

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Universities Superannuation Scheme
    Big UK pension scheme under pressure over Thames Water stake

    Universities Superannuation Scheme owns 20% stake in troubled utility that is in effect worthless

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Lex
    Special treatment for Thames Water is unlikely to wash

    Ofwat has limited room for manoeuvre in providing leniency to financially distressed water companies

    The Thames Water logo is seen on protective fencing around ongoing pipe work in April in London
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Water Services Regulation Authority UK
    Regulator plans to cut fines to help stressed UK water companies

    Ofwat draws up proposal for ‘recovery regime’ to avoid nationalisation of Thames Water and other groups

    A worker in front of a Thames Water barrier in London
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    Pollution
    Thames Water pumped 14bn litres of sewage into river Thames in central London in 2023

    Figures obtained via freedom of information laws come as water pollution rises up political agenda

    An aerial view shows the outfall into the River Thames, at Thames Water’s Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, in south east London
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Thames Water’s biggest shareholder writes off investment

    Move by Canadian pension fund is sign of escalating financial crisis at UK’s largest water supplier

    A Thames Water van
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Thames Water causes Redrow legal stink over damaged sewer

    Utility accuses housebuilder of ‘negligence’ after sewer blocked with concrete

    Surface water and sewage on the road at the entrance to the village East Ilsley, England
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Thames Water customers will have paid £540mn for London’s ‘Super Sewer’

    Breakdown of accounts comes as testing on Tideway tunnel set to begin and UK’s biggest water provider faces debt crisis

    West London section of the Tideway ‘Super Sewer’
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Thames Water bondholders demand emergency summit with troubled group

    Creditors holding £5bn of debt have been spooked by default of parent company this month

    Thames Water vans parked at a pumping station in London
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks

    Shortage of data raises questions over condition of infrastructure as groups seek sharp increases in bills

    Sewage being discharged into a brook
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Utilities
    Investors fear Thames Water contagion, Barclays says

    A potential failure at the UK’s biggest water provider could carry sector-wide risks, survey finds

    An aerial view shows Thames Water’s Mogden sewage treatment works in Isleworth, west London
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