OPINION - The Standard View: Failing Thames Water has been rinsing us all
by Evening Standard Comment
Mar 28, 2024
2 minutes
Thames Water, like other water companies, had no debt at the time of privatisation. But since 1989, these utility firms have borrowed vast sums to pay out more than £65 billion in dividends. Privatisation was of course supposed to drive investment. Instead it has fallen. Taxpayers
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