"Pensioner sued for not paying water bills to polluting firm in sea sewage protest Chris Stanley, 81, is refusing to pay Southern Water after the company was fined a record £90m for dumping sewage." And there it is. The paradox, the insanity and obscenity of the sewage scandal.

“£38million investment in Exmouth over the next five years” is untrue. The majority of that £38m is already spent and yet the situation is getting worse. Feargal Sharkey Windrush WASP SOS Whitstable David Reed MP David Parsley South West Water

There's something strange and possibly very confusing tacked on to the end of govt's new Water (Special Measures) Bill, section 10. Who can tell me what it means?

"Thames Water debt emergency seized on by US hedge funds. Elliott Management to play central role in future of utilities giant after scooping up cut-price loans." American financial vultures are hovering over the soon to be corpse of Thames Water 💧. They're buying up TW's debt on

This is just outrageous Why is the government backing itself into a corner by ruling out nationalisation? There's never been a better time to nationalise Thames Water, its own shareholders say it's worth nothing cityam.com/thames-water-b…

Week 45 of the Strike Against Sewage Today, we had the absolute privilege of being joined by Baroness Jenny Jones from the House of Lords. She is participating in a debate about OFWAT and the Environment Agency, and we’ve provided her with enough evidence to demonstrate

Which would be more effective in stopping water companies criminally polluting for profit?

The water companies can sense Labour's weakness. There's never been a better opportunity to bring water back into public hands. But the government have shown they won't take it — giving tacit approval for the water firms to do whatever it takes to defend their golden goose.

Remainder of year’s water bills will pay dividends and service debts, say campaigners dlvr.it/TD2n6s

📅 Cost of Water Privatisation Day. 📅 Recent figures suggest that from today, the average water bill goes on dividends and debts. You shouldn't have to pay a shareholder surcharge to end pollution. Take their licences. Public ownership NOW. Sign here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-t…

"It's very clear that the water industry is exploiting the captured billpayers of this country and regulators are allowing it. Instead of allowing water companies to unfairly increase bills, Ofwat should halt these obscene dividend payments to shareholders. Labour's actions so

"Scottish Water does better than most English Water Companies and it is in public ownership" - it doesn't pay dividends and doesn't need shareholders Nor do we, so why is UK government so scared of ditching owners like the Chinese government and multinational BlackRock?

Our government is being tricked into leaving captive billpayers in the hands of financial predators just because they create more fear in the Cabinet than the public does. How do we change that? theguardian.com/business/artic…

Enforce the Law. That’s it. With Windrush WASP MattStaniek at Parliament to brief MPs ahead of #waterbill this is what we need. Plain and simple

NEWS From today, 31% of the year left & 31% of your water bill pays ONLY for debts and dividends. So all money from now until New Year goes to that!!! When privatised there was no debt Welcome to "free market economy" Tufton St, catastrophic UK😡 Follow ⁦We Own It⁩

We so wanted the change of government to herald a fresh start on water that we could all get behind. But the complete refusal to consider public ownership coupled with the extremely weak Water Act... It's not been a great start.

Thanks to @Carla_Denyer for joining the call for failing water firms to lose their licences and come into public ownership. 90% of the world's water is in public ownership. Why not here? ✍️ Add your name NOW: weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop-t…

I'm completely honoured and delighted to be representing the people of the Witney constituency. I have been put here by you to listen and to learn. To speak for you all and to do more than speak up, to work with people to get things done. I will do my very best to represent you

Knowing that England's captive water customers have been ruthlessly exploited by voracious financial parasites - but now there is finally a chance to take back control and reform a broken business harming the economy and environment - he decides to give them another go!

Does anyone think that if Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, lets criminally operating Thames Water go to 'rescuing' shareholder predators he is going to allow the regulators to effectively enforce the law against water companies and CEOs and stop pollution being profitable?