SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 04/03/2025A short and important film - please watch, and email your MP! 032
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 01/03/2025We 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? 🌊thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.ukThe People's Commission on the Water Sector 084
Reposted by SOS WhitstablePrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/02/2025UK 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.gov.ukPublic invited to have say on water sector fit for the futureIndependent Water Commission explores fresh ideas on water sector reforms, both evolutionary and revolutionary. 1815767
Reposted by SOS WhitstableWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 20/12/2024We'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...ft.comWhy UK water regulator’s decision on bills is set to stoke turmoilOfwat has not given heavily indebted Thames Water the increase in customer payments it was seeking 916794
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Merry 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 084
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This 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… 046
Reposted by SOS WhitstableJenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A *very* good turn out of MPs, and campaigners. 17814
Reposted by SOS WhitstableJenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The 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 313852
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Great 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 💚 0101
Reposted by SOS WhitstableSOS 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.ukBan the BailoutsThe 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. 093
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.ukBan the BailoutsThe 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. 093
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 28/11/2024We have been told over and over that this is just ‘algae’, does it look like algae to you? 🤔 0133
Reposted by SOS WhitstableRachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 26/11/2024MAPPED! 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... 08037
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 26/11/2024A 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. 0172
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Didn’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...ft.comThames Water faced with £100mn bill from creditors’ advisersFees represent an additional drain on finances of troubled UK utility as customer bills are set to rise 0104
Reposted by SOS WhitstableWindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Not 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 163
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 23/11/2024If 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 🙏🏼change.orgSign the PetitionReturn the Water Industry to Public Ownership 043
Reposted by SOS WhitstableHugo Tagholm @hugotagholm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Give these top voices a follow. 🙏🤙🌎🐋 go.bsky.app/UPu5PJq 1913048
Reposted by SOS WhitstableCat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The government should step in NOW to protect you from Thames Water's £15 billion debt mountain 💰⛰️ youtube.com/shorts/qauVo...youtube.comWhy should YOU pay for Thames Water's debt? #weownit #publicownershipYouTube video by We Own It 14021
Reposted by SOS WhitstableGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024How 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. 🧵 17052992038
Reposted by SOS WhitstableWindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Christmas sewage lights going on early 0138
Reposted by SOS WhitstableHenley Mermaids @henleymermaids.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Thames 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/3UXV7tHbit.lyThames Water’s IT ‘falling apart’ and is hit by cyber-attacks, sources claimExclusive: Company relies on obsolete tech and there are troubling security gaps, Guardian investigation suggests 0125
Reposted by SOS WhitstableWindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024One 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. 064
Reposted by SOS WhitstableEwan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024How 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! 196
Reposted by SOS WhitstableCat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Thames 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...bloomberg.comThames Water Pushes Deadline in Hunt for £3.3 Billion in EquityThames 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. 03620
Reposted by SOS WhitstableWindrushWASP @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...ft.comThames Water wins bondholder approval for £3bn emergency loanThree-quarters of top ranking lenders approve expensive plan to avert cash crunch 083
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Wonderful 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… 1174
Reposted by SOS Whitstablealfandalf @alfandalf.bsky.social · 17/11/2024SOS 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 164
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 16/11/2024900,000 hrs in 2020, and 3,600,000 in 2023… great to see things are getting so much better 🙄 133
Reposted by SOS WhitstableRob Windscheffel @robwindscheffel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024And the areas we imagine should be protected are at risk www.channel4.com/news/calls-f...channel4.comCalls for urgent action over pharmaceuticals found in rivers in National ParksA 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... 0105
Reposted by SOS WhitstableWindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Ofwat'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/...theguardian.comUnited Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into WindermereWater company claims information is not in the public interest despite widespread pollution of UK waters 0188
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 16/11/2024It 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 0134
Reposted by SOS WhitstableHenley Mermaids @henleymermaids.bsky.social · 16/11/2024When 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/3YSZM17bit.lyStarmer: end the Thames Water farce nowThere is no crock of equity gold at the end of the rainbow 0106
Reposted by SOS WhitstableMatt Staniek @savewindermere.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Windermere should not be green savewindermere.com @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 3237
SOS Whitstable @soswhitstable.bsky.social · 14/11/2024The vampire kangaroo strikes again, Southern Water joins Thames in ‘junk’ status www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukSouthern Water credit rating downgraded to 'junk' by Moody'sThe judgement indicates the under-fire utility company is more likely default on its debt. 1124