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10 cold water swimmers on the North Kent coast, campaigning to end sewage pollution. Join almost 300,000 others and sign our petition to bring water back into public ownership here - www.change.org/p/return-the-water-i… 🌊

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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A short and important film - please watch, and email your MP!
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We are very excited to be hosting a @peopleswater.bsky.social event in Whitstable on the 1st May, which will be open to the public. More information here: www.thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.uk. See you there? 🌊
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The People's Commission on the Water Sector
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
UK Govt invites public to have a say on water sector future. Another impression management exercise. Govt has ruled out public ownership, worker/customer elected directors, worker/customer vote on exec pay. Won't prevent dividends, inflation-busting customer bill hike, sewage dumping.
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Public invited to have say on water sector fit for the future
Independent Water Commission explores fresh ideas on water sector reforms, both evolutionary and revolutionary.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/12/2024
We're in the FT today: “It’s utterly disgraceful that after 35 years of bonus scandals, sewage spills, and huge dividends, water firms are set to be rewarded by Ofwat with huge inflation-busting bill hikes” Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.ft.com/content/9216...
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Why UK water regulator’s decision on bills is set to stoke turmoil
Ofwat has not given heavily indebted Thames Water the increase in customer payments it was seeking
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Merry Christmas! Today Ofwat have approved bill hikes for all water companies, with Southern Water topping the charts at 53% over the next five years. We’ve made it very easy for you to email your MP today to let them know how outrageous this is - campaigns.sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk thank you
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This Thursday Ofwat will confirm how much our water bills will increase by over the next 5yrs. Southern Water bills are set to rise by 84%… if you think that is a joke, please sign below…
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A *very* good turn out of MPs, and campaigners.
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Govt refuses to consider no bailout of water companies and public ownership of them. The only way to change this is a huge lobbying of MPs. Take advice from The Sewage Network Campaign and @feargalsharkey.bsky.social @ashsmith43.bsky.social @henleymermaids.bsky.social @soswhitstable.bsky.social
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Great turnout for our MP Briefing on the water industry this evening at Portcullis House 💪🏼🆘🌊 and special thanks to @greenjennyjones.bsky.social for coming along to support us too 💚
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🚨 #banthebailout 🚨 The Water Bill is about to enter the Commons, and it allows the bail out of water companies by the public. Our good friends @sascampaigns.bsky.social have launched a petition to tell the government that this is unacceptable. Please sign and share! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
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Ban the Bailouts
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. Help stop this scandal, before it’s too late.
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🚨 #banthebailout 🚨 The Water Bill is about to enter the Commons, and it allows the bail out of water companies by the public. Our good friends @sascampaigns.bsky.social have launched a petition to tell the government that this is unacceptable. Please sign and share! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
sas.org.uk
Ban the Bailouts
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. Help stop this scandal, before it’s too late.
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We have been told over and over that this is just ‘algae’, does it look like algae to you? 🤔
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
MAPPED! Today’s bathing water classifications for England! Explore the Watershed Pollution Map to find out how the Environment Agency rates your waters. watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-ou...
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What a time to be alive.
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A visit to the Lords today to meet with the wonder that is @greenjennyjones.bsky.social, and hear the 3rd reading of the Water (Special Measures) Bill. As the bill now moves to ‘the other place’, we will be campaigning hard for further amendments, esp. banning public bail out of water companies.
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Didn’t somebody once say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? Let’s end this never ending cycle of public bills bailing out private equity and bring water back into public ownership, now. www.ft.com/content/bc6e...
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Thames Water faced with £100mn bill from creditors’ advisers
Fees represent an additional drain on finances of troubled UK utility as customer bills are set to rise
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WindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Not from the untreated outfall, this was the actual brook including dilution from the treated effluent and the stream - so much for storm sewage being relatively harmless contaminated rainwater. Witney, Oxfordshire. @soswhitstable.bsky.social
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If this post from @premnsikka.bsky.social has shocked you as much as it’s shocked us, please consider signing and sharing our petition calling for public ownership, we are so close to 300,000 signatures - www.change.org/p/return-the... thank you 🙏🏼
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Sign the Petition
Return the Water Industry to Public Ownership
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Hugo Tagholm @hugotagholm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Give these top voices a follow. 🙏🤙🌎🐋 go.bsky.app/UPu5PJq
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The government should step in NOW to protect you from Thames Water's £15 billion debt mountain 💰⛰️ youtube.com/shorts/qauVo...
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Why should YOU pay for Thames Water's debt? #weownit #publicownership
YouTube video by We Own It
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵
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WindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Christmas sewage lights going on early
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Henley Mermaids @henleymermaids.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thames Water are a threat to our entire country, their in-aided, un-regulated demise could ruin us financially. A threat to security! SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION NOW @cleanilkley.bsky.social @soswhitstable.bsky.social @paulpowlesland.bsky.social @ewanmg.bsky.social bit.ly/3UXV7tH
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Thames Water’s IT ‘falling apart’ and is hit by cyber-attacks, sources claim
Exclusive: Company relies on obsolete tech and there are troubling security gaps, Guardian investigation suggests
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WindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
One of the first to dump untreated sewage afetr a bit of rain and snow - Oxford. Operating illegally since 2017 , Ofwat funded the upgrade in 2019 and Thames Water held on to the money instead. Worst bit - South Oxfordshire District Council has approved more houses to be added to it.
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Ewan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How can we fix our broken water system? What rules deal with failing and polluting companies? How much could it cost - or would we gain - if water were public? Join our public lecture/discussion Thursday 6pm @kcl.ac.uk with @greenjorobb.bsky.social, a lead water campaigner from Henley Mermaids!
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thames Water desperately scrabbling around for cash - what a mess Government should use Special Administration powers to TAKE IT BACK NOW on grounds of 💧financial insolvency 💧failure to fulfil duties Public ownership is normal in 90% of the world www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Thames Water Pushes Deadline in Hunt for £3.3 Billion in Equity
Thames Water extended the deadline in its search for billions of pounds in new equity, as it demands more from potential investors on how they plan to help turnaround the beleaguered utility.
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WindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Thames Water 'rescue' .."deal comes with an annual 9.75 per cent interest rate as well as steep fees, which will substantially raise the effective return for bondholders." Seriously? Financial vultures circling captive billpayers tied up by their own government. www.ft.com/content/b3f0...
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Thames Water wins bondholder approval for £3bn emergency loan
Three-quarters of top ranking lenders approve expensive plan to avert cash crunch
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Wonderful to see the brilliant Mark Barrows @beneath-b-waters.bsky.social on BBC Countryfile this evening, sharing his incredible underwater footage from the River Wharfe, and sharing the negative impacts of sewage pollution…
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alfandalf @alfandalf.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social "Starmer: End the Thames Water Farce Now" An absolutely damning assessment of the @thameswater scandal and water privatisation in general by @GlobalCapNews What will it take to make @Keir_Starmer and @SteveReedMP see sense? t.co/NIY2rBDQqr
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
900,000 hrs in 2020, and 3,600,000 in 2023… great to see things are getting so much better 🙄
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Rob Windscheffel @robwindscheffel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
And the areas we imagine should be protected are at risk www.channel4.com/news/calls-f...
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Calls for urgent action over pharmaceuticals found in rivers in National Parks
A study seen by Channel 4 News reveals the levels of some drugs including antibiotics, heart medicines and paracetamol found in rivers in English national parks, are high enough to change fish behavio...
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WindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ofwat's CEO David Black on United Utilities hiding information from @savewindermere.bsky.social “Customers have paid companies to install monitors and collect their data,” he said. “They have a right to see what it says.” Nailed that. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere
Water company claims information is not in the public interest despite widespread pollution of UK waters
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It just keeps coming… more amazing work uncovering the truth by @savewindermere.bsky.social and @windrushwasp.bsky.social 💪🏼 Why does it take unpaid members of the community to do this though? #endsewagepollution #savewimdermere
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Henley Mermaids @henleymermaids.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
When the magazine of the capital markets starts calling for Thames Water to be renationalised, you know things are bad. It’s time for government to step in, protect bill payers and end the farce. Special administration and public ownership now. bit.ly/3YSZM17
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Starmer: end the Thames Water farce now
There is no crock of equity gold at the end of the rainbow
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Matt Staniek @savewindermere.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Windermere should not be green savewindermere.com @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Blue green algae engulfing mitchell wyke bay, Windermere
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SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The vampire kangaroo strikes again, Southern Water joins Thames in ‘junk’ status www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Southern Water credit rating downgraded to 'junk' by Moody's
The judgement indicates the under-fire utility company is more likely default on its debt.
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