Time's nearly up for Thames Water. So let's bring it into public ownership - permanently

Newspaper reports this week state that Thames Water, Britian's largest water monopoly, has been lobbying Ofwat to increase your bills, pay more dividends to its overseas investors, and try to squirm out of its way of paying fines for dumping sewage illegally. 

Thames Water is collapsing because it has racked up nearly £19 billion of debt. In 1989 it started out with zero debt. It has spent the last 34 years profiting at our expense. The company has paid out £7.2 billion in dividends and in 2022 paid out £37 million of “internal dividends” to its parent company.

Now officials at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are drawing up contingency plans for the company's failure, and have even nicknamed them 'Project Timber', because of the far-reaching consequences if it fails.

But, as We Own It founder and CEO Cat Hobbs explains our new video, there should be no bailout for Thames Water. The government's priority should be protecting the public from the mess Thames Water and its backers have brought upon themselves. Billpayers, and our precious rivers and seas, should not have to bear the brunt of their failure.

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