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It’s time to turn the tide on 40 years of privatisation and failure. We’re building a movement to take back water. takebackwater.uk

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Antoinette Oyínkánsọ́lá Fernandez @greenantoinette.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
On the weekend I attended Take Back Water: What if we refuse to pay💧🌊 My notes from the event include: We must shift our thinking away from the consumer narrative - WE ARE ENTITLED TO WATER - it makes up over 60% of our bodies💙 Continued below🩵
An image of a table from Take Back Water’s event showing the campaigns various flyers and a QR code to join the pledge to fight.Audience and panellists at the Take Back Water event last weekend at Pelican House in Hackney.Audience and panellists at the Take Back Water event last weekend at Pelican House in Hackney.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Full event information and registration available here – don't miss out! buytickets.at/takebackwate...
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Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
TODAY: What if we refused to pay? Join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss how we take back water from the profiteers and polluters 👇
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Abolish private ownership of water next.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Last chance – register now! Join our event tomorrow: What if we refused to pay? buytickets.at/takebackwate...
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Eerily 🎃 🔮 @millyrose.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Tired of reading about Water Boss’ Bonuses? Reading about Fine’s that do fuck all? Seeing Sewage increasing? What if we refused to pay our water bills? Join Take Back Water tomorrow for the first event of many on politics of refusal and common ownership.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
What will it take to end the failure of private ownership of water? This Saturday, join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss this question👇 buytickets.at/takebackwate...
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Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Don't miss out, register now 👇 buytickets.at/takebackwate...
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Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📍 Johnbosco Nwogbo – Lead Campaigner at @weownit.org.uk. He previously campaigned for renters' rights as part of ACORN the community union and helped lead winning campaigns on the NHS.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📍 Sophie Flinders – a senior data analyst at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social, a think tank that advocates for democratic forms of ownership. Her research interests include healthcare, forensic accountancy and private equity in social care.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📍 Frances Northrop – a co-founding Director of @abundance-org.bsky.social and Head of Community Economic Power at @neweconomics.bsky.social. From a place of practical experience, Frances advises on generative local economies.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📍 Ash Smith – founder of the @windrushwasp.bsky.social team of professionals, known for its data analysis and evidence-based exposure of water company criminality and regulatory capture.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Speaker line-up | Common ownership For our first session on Saturday, we're excited to be joined by a series of excellent speakers from the water and common ownership movements. Check it out 👇
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Three days to go! Join us on Saturday to discuss what it'll take to end the scandal of private ownership of water with experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns. Register for event now 👇 buytickets.at/takebackwate...
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Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Full info and link to register 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/takeb...
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Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Joining us for the event is: 👉 Frances Northrop, @abundance-org.bsky.social 👉 Jim Morris-Knight, @unison.org.uk 👉 Sophie Flinders, @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👉 Johnbosco Nwogbo, @weownit.org.uk 👉 Ash Smith, @windrushwasp.bsky.social p 👉 Seth Wheeler, Agit Press And more!
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
What will it take to end the failure of private ownership of water? On Saturday 19 July, we're inviting you to join us and an incredible line up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns to discuss this question👇
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🎳 What if we refused to pay? Join us and an incredible line-up of experts from think tanks, trade unions and local anti-sewage pollution campaigns for our event on Saturday 19 July! Secure your spot now 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/takeb...
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Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
❓ But what makes for an effective mass non-payment campaign? 🌊 Join us on 19 July to explore these questions through the framework of refusal and the crises currently facing the private water industry in England and Wales. Secure your spot now 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/takeb...
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Secure your spot – Take Back Water: what if we refused to pay? – Pelican House
From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, student rent strikes and beyond — mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have ...
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🎳 What if we refused to pay? 🎳 ✉ From the Poll Tax to Don’t Pay, mass refusal has a powerful history in the UK. Millions have come together to oppose unjust taxes and soaring bills through the act of refusing to pay.
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Abundance @abundance-org.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Thames Water might soon be brought into a Special Administration Regime, but public ownership alone won’t fix a system rigged for private profit. Without real social control, we risk repeating the same mistakes.
Should we prioritise ensuring water is used to irrigate fields for crops

...or for cooling data centres?
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water. But this drew on calculations by — drumroll — water company lobbyists. The true cost is closer to zero. Here’s why. 🧵
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While Rome Burns @while-rome-burns.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It’s always the same - privatise the profits, socialise the losses. They spend decades siphoning wealth off-shore and then everyone else has to bail them out so they don’t run any risk.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes
Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management
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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Like only they can do, Labour and Starmer have made an already bad situation a lot worse 👏🏼
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
What other industry could so brazenly demand immunity from the crimes they commit? If Keir Starmer won't stand up to this blackmail, it's up to us to act. Join the pledge to strike and help put the criminal Thames Water out of business for good 👉 takebackwater.uk
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It couldn't be clearer: the future of Thames Water is either as a publicly-owned utility or a privately-owned criminal organisation. Yet Starmer will keep doing all he can to keep the firm in private hands. It's time to put Thames out of business for good 👇 takebackwater.uk
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Take Back Water
Take down the profiteers, end the scam. Turn the tide on 40 years of privatisation and failure.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Keir Starmer could've taken Thames Water back into public hands months ago. Now he's being blackmailed by the only remaining bidder willing to rescue the utility before it runs out of cash at the end of the month. Their terms: don't prosecute our crimes.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Water firms have already said they'll increase bosses' salaries to get around any ban on bonuses. The only way to end the profiteering is to take water out of private hands.
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C🎃s! @algernonentity.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
it will never not astound me how little you can buy a labour politician for
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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 05/06/2025
politicians prefer private companies because nationalised ones don’t ‘donate’ to them
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm about to do my mandatory "don't do corruption" training at work and I'll be interested once again to see how many of the things I'm explicitly told will lead to me being sacked the government openly does.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder
The contributions raise fresh questions over transparency in Westminster lobbying
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Imagine working for years to get into politics just to sell out a whole integral bit of infrastructure for £27k.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/06/2025
£27k is nothing to those 'donating'. Labour aren't even good at bribery. Cheap.
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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Can we please call this what it actually is? It's CORRUPTION!
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Olly B @ollybain.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
£27,000 *bribe*
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The government bent over backward to hand Thames Water over to KKR. Now they've pulled out and Thames only has cash to operate until the end of the month. Water for 16 million people is now at risk all over a £27,000 donation?
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peterdavieson.bsky.social @peterdavieson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Nobody will buy a UK water company. The current owners have syphoned off money by borrowing against assets, sold all the assets they can, degraded all the assets that remain .. and polluted all the waterways with sewerage dumping. Nobody will buy a UK water company.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thames Water secured a £3 billion emergency loan three months ago.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thames Water is a monopoly with 16 million trapped customers. Yet KKR – a predatory private equity firm – doesn't even want to own it. If public ownership isn't the answer and private investors won't invest, then maybe Steve Reed has no idea what he's doing.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“Sources close to the situation told the BBC that the politicisation of the water industry was a major disincentive for investors to put money into the sector.” Customers are scaring multi-billion pound private equity firms off from investing in water. Let's keep it going 👉 takebackwater.uk
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
KKR drops out of plan to rescue Thames Water. Not even the most predatory private equity firms are interested in this failed utility. Time to take Thames back into public hands.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A brazen lie from Labour. Private owners of water firms have handed themselves £80 billion in recent decades instead of investing. Did Starmer and Reed really think anyone would believe that they'd suddenly decide to invest £104 billion? www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Labour accused of 'misleading' Britons over cost of cleaning Britain's rivers
Bill payers will foot the bill to fix the nation's waterways - not private investment - campaigners have said.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Govt confirms criminals control England water industry. "Since the privatisation of water and sewerage companies in 1989, all ten Water and Sewerage companies which discharge into English waters have been convicted of criminal offences". Still allowed to fleece people, no end to criminality.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
👀 Have you spotted a Take Back Water sticker in your community? We've sent out thousands across the country to help spread the word about our plan to end private ownership of water. Get a stack for yourself here 👉 take-back-water.myshopify.com
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upshittscreek1.bsky.social @upshittscreek1.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
They should take fine out of money for dividends FFS
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