It makes economic sense to nationalise natural monopolies. It’s so obvious.

ALL public not be run by private companies that rip off

their customers

Sue the shareholders who have milked Thames Water with outrageous dividend!

We can't live long without water. Makes no sense for it's provision to be in the hands of private companies and their profit motives.

Nationalisation would be the best policy for the Nation

We should never have put our utilities into private ownership. Now we are paying the price for this decision. If Thames Water cannot resolve their debt problem, the taxpayer must not be used to bail them out. Ofwat should have taken firmer action a long time ago.

the water industry is a vital service we cannot return to the victorian era of public squaler and water bourne desease

The grossly high-paid directors and greedy shareholders should pay to remedy the problems. Users of the service should not be bailing out a failed institution. All national services should be publicly owned and not run by civil servants but by ordinary people!

Water is life.. Water is a precious commododity, essential to the life and wellbeing of all our citizens, animals and plantlife, including our food on our islands. Water is free at source courtesy of Planet Earth.

Water belongs to all of us. The private profiteers have enriched themselves at our expense and are turning our waters into disease ridden swamps. Nationalise our waters now. Not a penny more for the criminal profiteers...rather a refund to pay for the much needed maintenance of our water that they have neglected for decades as they plundered our assets to enrich themselves with

high dividends. This must be considered a crime against humanity and a crime against nature.

All utilities should be publicly owned and prices to consumers kept as low as possible, with quality and commitment as high as possible. This country should get back to high standards.

This scandal cannot be allowed to continue. Water-company shareholders have drawn profits for years at the expense of the public. Their lack of investment should not be rewarded with a temporary move back into public hands while their mess is sorted out and paid for by the tax payer. Water is our most precious resource and it is clear all across the country that privatisation has been a disaster. A weak Environment agency has compounded the problems.

All water resources in this country should come into permanent public ownership . At least then, if the tax payer and customers have to pay more, it will not be siphoned off by shareholders who do not have the needs and interests of this country at heart.

I have supported international water charities for decades and am appalled that this situation has been able to develop in our own country.

Why should bill payers pay any increase when the company directors have loaded the company with debt whilst taking out huge salaries for themselves and rewarding share holders with unrealistically high dividends. Nationalise this company. Water belongs to us all not just the affluent few.

I never understood why water was privatised. All water companies should nationalised and run by people who know what they are doing and not for profit

Utilities should never be privatise and profits siphoned off to share holders and not used to maintain the infrastructure for the public services.

Living on the Devon/Cornwall border unfortunately we are supplied by South West Water who are the very worst polluters in the UK. Water bills are set to rise to pay for long overdue investment which should have been carried out during the last 35 years. This confirms that all water companies are ripping off their customers. The Government needs to take control of all these companies now in order to ensure water security and the clean up of this polluted private system. It has not worked in 35 years so now is the time for change.

I used to swim in the Thames as a child (60 years ago) and never got ill. The water companies should be ashamed that it is dirtier now. Lack of investment, undeserved bonuses - not a great advert for privatisation. We are going to pay one way or another so we might as well own it.

Natural monopolies such as water should not be privatised. The personnel running the water companies have clearly been motivated by big pay cheques and dividends to shareholders at the expense of infrastructure and the environment. The environment agency have been hopeless in monitoring performance and appear to have no teeth. The taxpayer should not have to foot the bill on a temporary basis. If we have to pay to fix the problem, the least we should get in return is ownership.

All water companies should be publicly owned.. get it out of the hands of these criminals! That goes for all utility companies.

This septic isle, set in a sewage sea.

The government should allow the company to go bust, be declared bankrupt and placed into official receivership and wound up. It should then intervene to buy up all its assets from the receiver. It would be much cheaper than taking it on together with responsibility for its billions of debt.

If we are going to bail southern water out, then it needs to go back permanently into public ownership. Not bailing out for private industry ! Even the thought is outrageous.

It’s scandalous that the UK is once again receiving the accolade of the ‘dirty man of Europe’. A vital public service where there is no possibility of healthy competition to priced down should never have been privatised. Water supply and waste water treatment must be returned to state ownership, otherwise the sad downward spiral will continue.

Not only have water companies not invested in new infrastructures - they have been selling off reservoirs during periods of drought and with no regard to an increase in population

Thames Water has behaved atrociously allowing sewage to pour through rivers and streams and killing wildlife whilst trying to keep their behaviour secret. Their object being to keep the cash to pay big dividends to shareholders. Let's take water back into public ownershipand fix the damage done by privatised company.