High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025
Submitted 4 days ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/water-bills-filthy-rivers-drought-water-crisis
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Southern Water nearly doubled their CEO pay to £1.4m because bonuses were banned. Just thought that is a nice little cherry on top for us poors :)
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Also important to remember.
Since privatisation. Water companies have sold of 30 reservoirs for development. Without replacing them.
Our current shortages exist purely because, water companies took the spare storage, and stole the investment funds to pay share holders.
Climate change is real. But summer water shortages are not related.