A short and important film - please watch, and email your MP!

We are very excited to be hosting a @peopleswater.bsky.social event in Whitstable on the 1st May, which will be open to the public. More information here: www.thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.uk. See you there? 🌊

UK Govt invites public to have a say on water sector future. Another impression management exercise. Govt has ruled out public ownership, worker/customer elected directors, worker/customer vote on exec pay. Won't prevent dividends, inflation-busting customer bill hike, sewage dumping.

We're in the FT today: “It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes” Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.ft.com/content/9216...

Merry Christmas! Today Ofwat have approved bill hikes for all water companies, with Southern Water topping the charts at 53% over the next five years. We’ve made it very easy for you to email your MP today to let them know how outrageous this is - campaigns.sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk thank you

This Thursday Ofwat will confirm how much our water bills will increase by over the next 5yrs. Southern Water bills are set to rise by 84%… if you think that is a joke, please sign below…

A *very* good turn out of MPs, and campaigners.

The Govt refuses to consider no bailout of water companies and public ownership of them. The only way to change this is a huge lobbying of MPs. Take advice from The Sewage Network Campaign and @feargalsharkey.bsky.social @ashsmith43.bsky.social @henleymermaids.bsky.social @soswhitstable.bsky.social

Great turnout for our MP Briefing on the water industry this evening at Portcullis House 💪🏼🆘🌊 and special thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social for coming along to support us too 💚

🚨 #banthebailout 🚨 The Water Bill is about to enter the Commons, and it allows the bail out of water companies by the public. Our good friends @sascampaigns.bsky.social have launched a petition to tell the government that this is unacceptable. Please sign and share! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...

🚨 #banthebailout 🚨 The Water Bill is about to enter the Commons, and it allows the bail out of water companies by the public. Our good friends @sascampaigns.bsky.social have launched a petition to tell the government that this is unacceptable. Please sign and share! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...

We have been told over and over that this is just ‘algae’, does it look like algae to you? 🤔

MAPPED! Today’s bathing water classifications for England! Explore the Watershed Pollution Map to find out how the Environment Agency rates your waters. watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-ou...

What a time to be alive.

A visit to the Lords today to meet with the wonder that is @greenjennyjones.bsky.social, and hear the 3rd reading of the Water (Special Measures) Bill. As the bill now moves to ‘the other place’, we will be campaigning hard for further amendments, esp. banning public bail out of water companies.

Didn’t somebody once say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Let’s end this never ending cycle of public bills bailing out private equity and bring water back into public ownership, now. www.ft.com/content/bc6e...

Not from the untreated outfall, this was the actual brook including dilution from the treated effluent and the stream - so much for storm sewage being relatively harmless contaminated rainwater. Witney, Oxfordshire. @soswhitstable.bsky.social

If this post from @premnsikka.bsky.social has shocked you as much as it’s shocked us, please consider signing and sharing our petition calling for public ownership, we are so close to 300,000 signatures - www.change.org/p/return-the... thank you 🙏🏼

Give these top voices a follow. 🙏🤙🌎🐋 go.bsky.app/UPu5PJq

The government should step in NOW to protect you from Thames Water's £15 billion debt mountain 💰⛰️ youtube.com/shorts/qauVo...

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

Christmas sewage lights going on early

Thames Water are a threat to our entire country, their in-aided, un-regulated demise could ruin us financially. A threat to security! SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION NOW @cleanilkley.bsky.social @soswhitstable.bsky.social @paulpowlesland.bsky.social @ewanmg.bsky.social bit.ly/3UXV7tH

One of the first to dump untreated sewage afetr a bit of rain and snow - Oxford. Operating illegally since 2017 , Ofwat funded the upgrade in 2019 and Thames Water held on to the money instead. Worst bit - South Oxfordshire District Council has approved more houses to be added to it.

How can we fix our broken water system? What rules deal with failing and polluting companies? How much could it cost - or would we gain - if water were public? Join our public lecture/discussion Thursday 6pm @kcl.ac.uk with @greenjorobb.bsky.social, a lead water campaigner from Henley Mermaids!

Thames Water desperately scrabbling around for cash - what a mess Government should use Special Administration powers to TAKE IT BACK NOW on grounds of 💧financial insolvency 💧failure to fulfil duties Public ownership is normal in 90% of the world www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Thames Water 'rescue' .."deal comes with an annual 9.75 per cent interest rate as well as steep fees, which will substantially raise the effective return for bondholders." Seriously? Financial vultures circling captive billpayers tied up by their own government. www.ft.com/content/b3f0...

Wonderful to see the brilliant Mark Barrows @beneath-b-waters.bsky.social on BBC Countryfile this evening, sharing his incredible underwater footage from the River Wharfe, and sharing the negative impacts of sewage pollution…

SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social "Starmer: End the Thames Water Farce Now" An absolutely damning assessment of the @thameswater scandal and water privatisation in general by @GlobalCapNews What will it take to make @Keir_Starmer and @SteveReedMP see sense? t.co/NIY2rBDQqr

900,000 hrs in 2020, and 3,600,000 in 2023… great to see things are getting so much better 🙄

And the areas we imagine should be protected are at risk www.channel4.com/news/calls-f...

Ofwat's CEO David Black on United Utilities hiding information from @savewindermere.bsky.social “Customers have paid companies to install monitors and collect their data,” he said. “They have a right to see what it says.” Nailed that. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It just keeps coming… more amazing work uncovering the truth by @savewindermere.bsky.social and @windrushwasp.bsky.social 💪🏼 Why does it take unpaid members of the community to do this though? #endsewagepollution #savewimdermere

When the magazine of the capital markets starts calling for Thames Water to be renationalised, you know things are bad. It’s time for government to step in, protect bill payers and end the farce. Special administration and public ownership now. bit.ly/3YSZM17

Windermere should not be green savewindermere.com @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The vampire kangaroo strikes again, Southern Water joins Thames in ‘junk’ status www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...