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Now there's one parliamentary evidence hearing you will not want to miss. It's going to be essential viewing.

So let me see if I've got this right. @Southernwater who sold off 35 reservoirs in just five years making £26 million in the process, who leaks about 34 billion litres of water per year from their badly maintained, underinvested, creaky old network of pipes is telling customer to stop using water, to ration it. Well that's alright then. thecanary.co/uk/analysis/202…

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"Raw sewage poured into Windermere for 6,000 hours last year." That's the equivalent of 17 hours per day, each and every day. The fat cat boss of United Utilities appeared before Parliament last week. It was all fine words, fine deeds, promises made, commitments given. It was all nonsense of course. Leopards and spots. thetimes.com/uk/environment/…

And just when you thought that the water industry couldn't become any more of a shambles here it is. Govt made a massive strategic blunder when telling WCs that nationalisation was not on an agenda. Utterly predictable the industry saw that as a weakness and are exploiting it. Yesterday over 40% of England's WCs announced they are appealing @Ofwat's pricing decision. What does that tell you about @Ofwat's competency? And all of that is before we even mention @thameswater. theguardian.com/business/202…

Today the high court sided with the fat cats and bosses and granted a £3 billion bailout for Thames Water. This is a sticking plaster that will allow Thames Water to limp along until it requires another bailout, with customers footing the bill. Government must step in and put Thames Water into special administration and restructure the water industry to end pollution for profit and deliver a water system that benefits people and planet, rather than greedy polluters. #ThamesWater #EndSewagePollution

Today, our courts sided with the model of profiting off pollution by permitting failing Thames Water a £3 billion bailout. And we are furious. 😡 We believe this judgement is a massive missed opportunity for making an example out of our failing water industry and taking a step towards the transformational reform the broken water sector urgently requires. The Government still has the opportunity to place the debt-ridden company into special administration, however, they seem intent on sitting on their hands. But this fight isn't over. Our friends @We_OwnIt and @WindrushWasp have done incredible work in forcing the court to consider this case. Now, we need to have the Independent Water Commission in our sights, and we will be doing everything we can to ensure they deliver government recommendations to overhaul this broken system. Stick with us and we will #EndSewagePollution Hear from SAS Campaigns Manager, Rob, on his take:

This decision just reinforces what the public knows to be true: our water industry is broken. It's designed to protect the interests of shareholders, bosses and big finance. It's not a system for us, or the planet. And it must change. #EndSewagePollution #DirtyMoney

So it’s D-Day for @thameswater No matter the outcome you end with a single thought. A historical and continuing failure of political oversight, incompetent regulation and corporate greed has provided devastating for bill payers and the environment. news.sky.com/story/amp/whats…

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