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Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...

Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.

The sewage dumping numbers are out and it's worse than ever.Four years after WASP's Prof Peter Hammond ripped the lid off the sewage scandal and showed an epidemic of illegal pollution, Thames Water s...

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The Appeal Court has announced that it will not overturn the High Court decision to allow Thames Water to add £3 billion debt to the almost £19 billion it has already taken on at billpayers' expense -...

Don't let that title mislead you; we are not having a collection for Thames Water..Next week, something very big is happening.Do you want to be there?On Tuesday, 11th March, the Appeal Court will star...

Plans to build 370 homes near the A40 outside Witney have received an objection by Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP).

We are in Oxfordshire, but we think we heard a distant "OUCH!" Could it have come from Environment Secretary, Steve Reed and his advisors, and from the Ofwat Chief Executive when Mr Justice Leech spok...

Analysis by campaign group finds utility company had highest rate of ‘no-flow’ samples of any water and sewerage firm in 2024

Analysis by campaign group finds utility company had highest rate of ‘no-flow’ samples of any water and sewerage firm in 2024 The water firm Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at its sewage plants that were never carried out. Operational…

Remember the letter we wrote to the High Court Judge at the start of proceedings to authorise a £3Bn loan to Thames Water to add to its already unbearable £19Bn debt burden? It's in the previous blog....

Happy Christmas!From WASP to our remarkable volunteers, supporters, donors, the under-funded water industry staff working to do their best while the bosses and shareholders keep the spoils, the Environment Agency staff battling against government cuts and dodgy government policy, the Ofwat staff who have been forced to look the other way, the media reporters and researchers without whom we would be nowhere, our co-campaigners, the councillors who have been with us throughout the fight, and the

On Tuesday 17th December WASP will deliver a hard copy of a letter to the High Court that we sent by email last Thursday 12 December. We will be accompanied by our MP Charlie Maynard of the Witney Con...

As big bill hikes loom to fix the problems caused by water companies whose failures are now being used to blackmail even more money out of billpayers, we take a look at what is going on behind the scenes. Shockingly, our new government appears to be fearful of upsetting the big financial interests at the heart of the water industry scandal. Let's hope that the fact that on the run-up to the election, the Labour Party took a £4 MILLION donation from a hedge fund similar to those now being allow

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The judgement indicates the under-fire utility company is more likely default on its debt.

There is no crock of equity gold at the end of the rainbow

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...

Three-quarters of top ranking lenders approve expensive plan to avert cash crunch

Campaigners blame United Utilities for blighting famous lake with raw effluent

Water company claims information is not in the public interest despite widespread pollution of UK waters