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Is expected increase in water bills enough to tackle sewage pollution?
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- If the regulator Ofwat has its way - water bills in England and Wales could go up by an average of £19 a year until 2030. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News...) But water companies have insisted it isn't nearly enough to tackle problems like sewage pollution.
It's an issue that dogged the last government so today the environment secretary Steve Reed summoned industry bosses for urgent talks - and called for a "reset moment".
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Privatisation was supposed to increase competition. Now it's turned into a monopoly. Renationalise trains, gas electric and water. No more millionaire ceos.
It is alie that Privatisation was better for people, it was a lie that companies would compite and all that. It is a LIE ! It never happens.
there is no competition for things like water. only idiots believed it would help. i.e. tory voters.
Think about it from a logistics view. Multiple sorting facilities, multiple jets & trucks all overlapping the same geography? It's like arguing it's cheaper to drive two cars from point A to point B instead of just one. Privatisation begins with competition & ends with merger & consolidation, concentrating wealth. Nationalisation results in unlimited budgets & inefficient bureaucracy. No win situation.
Privatisation only increases competition in competitive industries like consumer goods or hospitality. Nobody can or will shop around for critical infrastructure or life saving emergency healthcare, you get what you're given and privatisation will only create a monopoly.
@@misterfunnybonesthe solution is to set the water companies as government owned not for profit trusts, with a mandate to provide the best public services and protection for the environment. This eliminates parasitic shareholders and government interference. Employee remuneration would be decided when the trust is established.
fine them, bankrupt them, buy them back cheap and nationalise.
makes too much sense sadly.
It was worse when it was nationalised. Not as simple as that
💯 A real Labour party would let go bust then buy it back for peanuts! Our current fake Labour party won't do that - they are fully owned by the corporate class.
@@NathanSaor1798as it stands these private companies operate in a monopoly situation and have borrowed huge sums of money over the years to pay large dividends out to investors. Extracting wealth out of the UK on a huge scale
Only fine the actual person not the company that puts the charges up . Nationalise for non profit .
If they are on their knees then how do they still get their bonuses?!
I guess the shareholders will need to hand the dividends back.
£72 Billion they have syphoned off instead of investing.
Sadly, people didn't vote for the parties who would have done something like that.
Quite simply - NO.
Not acceptable in any way, shape or form.
We are sick of being taken for fools.
Well I dont think we are because the reform vote is strong and the media/ establishment can now see a direct route to get their man in.
The nation is not sick of being taken for fools, it is addicted to them.
As usual Ofwat boss wasn't challenged by the interviewer about the millions of £ paid to shareholders and CEOs very recently whilst claiming to be on their knees!! (See Thames water) We need media reform!! Shame on channel 4!!!
Let them go bankrupt and buy them back on the cheap ... they should NEVER have been sold in the first place. But don't ask me to pay for their failures ... ENOUGH ... I REFUSE!!!
Spot on, let them go bust then we buy our water companies back again . No profits no shareholders no sewage in the rivers .
@@izzytrue8630 me too
Get the money from the water company who gave billions to the elite there. The Tories sold off the reservoirs.
No hope for gardens, No, we can’t let gardens die.
If the UK chancellor is going along with the 19 pound a year hike on the water bill, then the water company should have a freeze on giving out dividends to shareholder, f they are so strapped for cash.
We pay too much now.for god sake,hike wages up so we can get out of this existence,we need a life.
Price of rain hasn’t gone up, but water has
Claw back the dividends and don't pay any more out until the leaks are fixed and the sewage properly treated.
If we give them MORE money, they should take MORE responsibility and go to PRISON if they fail.
If they fail? They have failed & been that way for years.
@@verandisoldusty6834 you totally focused on the least important part of my point.
@@ascgazz I wasn't disagreeing with you just pointing out something that to me seems obvious.
@@verandisoldusty6834 I’m having a horrendous day.
I’m sorry I unleashed the demon on you, over nothing.
I just want somebody to pay for ruining the country for once.
Being rich or in power is like a fucking blank slate in this country now.
Labour have a right job on their hands.
CRIMNALS
Jesus christ in a country where it rains constantly you'd think we would have something
water companies never invested a single penny ! They just charged people and gave dividends to their shareholders during the last 30 years !
They fucked up why are we paying they should be fined 😅
Because the water companies know it’s a vital service and think they have a right to our bank accounts to pay for their fines and new cars. Basically. Privatisation hasn’t worked.
It was obvious years ago that privatisation doesn't work.
It never does.
Having worked for Thames Water, there ability to waste money, is sadly edimic, from the ground up
Asset stripping, non improvement and repair of systems, misinformation, no planning, should be nationalised.
It's like the tv license the water Is not worth the money
On a island with water all around
Labour MUST nationalise all Water Companies ... if they can't run the water companies properly ... WE WILL. This is just like 2010 when we had to bail out the banks ... thousands of people paid with their lives because of Tory austerity. WHY MUST IT KEEP HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! All our services must be publicly owned!!!
Yes, but when the Tories are re-elected they'll just privatise it again.
@@moomin7461Channel 4 Viewers are on a different planet, labor and Tories have almost identical financial and fiscal policies 😂😂
STOP moving water funds into building stadiums and traffic cameras.
I have to admit that I do not know why a group called OFWAT was set up. If it was to protect the general public, then where is the group that protects the general public from OFWAT. So far they have protected the water companies. Nobody else.
How is a 23 to 44% price rise not an increase?
Its already far too overpriced obscene robbery. Let them go bust and nationalise and set prices low not for profit .
Any bill increases should be matched by a stop on dividends for a fixed period ensuring funds go towards infrastructure
£20 a year doesnt seem like nearly enough there are 20 million households in uk, meaning 5 years investment this is £2bn... for the scale of a whole country that is nothing???
More lies from politicians. It wouldn't cost billions £ to renationalise Thames Water! Take share price total value subtract the total debt then divide the £ worth by the number of share = true value & say you will get the compensation over 5-10 years.
I wish I knew the solution to this problem. Because on one hand, corporations have to pay more than their fair share in taxes as they got us into the climate mess we are in, so my answer would be, in a state of emergency (because it will be coming), the nation needs to take control of the water and distribute it fairly until machines are normalized to be able to drink ocean water. Then there would need to be a concerted effort to clean the space junk up, then find the nearest planet/asteroid with water, and mine it. That would be my suggestion. But the flip of that coin is, the rich buy the politician, therefore the water would be distributed unevenly anyway. And since it would be expensive to clean the debris of our atmosphere and train astronauts, build the rockets and machines, and fund research on how the transport would take place, companies would have control and would continue to control life saving water that is needed to survive. We normalize drinking ocean, that would sustain us for a time, but nothing is unlimited. Your water bill is going up due to corruption, your water bill will continue to go up as the planet dries up the rivers we abusively use. Somehow, we need to force our leaders to put their dumb Ego’s aside and combine efforts to save all species on planet earth.
The obscene price and profits of water has to stop. Nationalise them now .
Whats the reason they couldnt tell shareholders to put back in the dividends they taken out in previous years, then if refused revoke license and make it state company.
More money to pay share dividends
No Dividend until the Money from Water Bills to go into the Infrastructure.
Labour needs to give the Regulator real Powers to fine the Water companies.
Not give Lip Service to the Public.
The new defra boss today made statements similar to what you're asking, kinda weird channel 4 didn't talk about it, it's also really hard to find anything on it on UA-cam for some reason.
Big inquiry please - sik some forensic accountants on them. They're NOT on their knees at all - claw back the dividends and bonuses. They are taking the P.
What a disgrace
If no one is interested, hold them accountable. and they should go to jail if they didn't respect the law, for them we are a good source of permanent enrichment. And it will bring the price up again and again😢😢😢
What you will expect there is the CEOs will get bigger bonuses and the employees will get a slight wage increase but nothing will change with the sewage problem. It's all about greed.
But what about their massive profits and didvidend payouts? Why could they dobit when we were in the EU?
To everyone who participated in the GE
Blame the Government for privatising
Fools!
nobody under 50 got to vote for this. was boomers and the golden generation who sold them all off
@@kanedNunable Thatcher!
Ok Ivan, roubles are on their way..
LET THE SHAREHOLDERS PAY FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS . THEY HAVE BEEN MILKING THE PUBLIC FOR YEARS .
My bill just went up £23 a month
@@MurphyOCP-001 if you go they will get back to you with a cheaper bill
No they need ask for all the bonus money being paid to CEO s plus there managers pay back there bonus money . That’s one way for the company get some off there money back or the government take it over . For nothing which is what it’s worth. Same as when they sell a bank for one silver coin.
Nationalise them.
Wow
and how many billion haeve the share holders taken out its time to nationlise it we are paying hem to pollut our rivers and lakes
Oh gosh. £1.60 a month. However will we cope.
simp more cuckbot?
Take the £1.60 out of the dividends paid to shareholders.
My electricity has gone up nearly 100 pounds a month and it is due to go up, even more. This is nothing compared to that, that is £1.50 a month.
@@lukesimpson1507 leave and they will get back to you and lower your bill
My former president called me snd demanded golden showers.
I refuse to pay it just as I refuse to pay council tax we are mot their slaves these CEOs are on millions per year. Those who voted consented to it let them pay for it.
I do you avoid paying council tax and water can you help me and give me advice?
@@haroonhussain259 Don't ask for advice from someone who is about to end up with a CCJ and a credit score in the toilet
I'm sorry what? An increase in bills of 21% is an increase £19 a year? That means people are paying £90 a year for water? We pay nearly that every month.
Outdoor outhouse built again just as my great grandparents had done as I use only 3 gallons a day for toilet & wash dish. I buy water for consumption because 94596 building has lead pipes harmful to humans animals.
14 years of total power. Result = nothing.
Get a water meter fitted. You'll save a lot more than that.
nope. they often increase your charges with a meter. maybe tory voters were stupid to vote to privatise...
No they don't, it's always charged at rhe same rate, use less, save money, it's not rocket science.
@@user-ol6rd7pl5tMeters are bull they make poor people poorer by making them use less water a fixed rate is much fairer, water shouldn't be expensive and the water companies have gotten enough money, water is a human right
Chris walters, theres a dude whos got a nice job waiting at one of these companies, once he leaves ofwat
That's a revolving door of elite "management" that needs to GO!
Unknown is edit or not....but just lose time...much better do something...you know child poverty...
Another way for the gov to line their pockets
Nothing to do with the current government.
Billions and billions for Project Ukraine,
while back in the empire, the average person suffers.
You mean you suffer.
I hope our friends don't think like you do if we ever got invaded. I'm also glad I'm not your friend irl.
@@pvpherthen2981
Friends like UK and USA who fed Ukrainians into a meat grinder, not caring about them at all…No, I don’t need friends like those.
I seen different information today on the Microsoft news boulet. Figer not 19£ but 100£