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Water company fat cats are ‘making us pay for decades of criminal behaviour’
Labour's Clive Lewis, trade unionists and campaigners demand public ownership of water after Ofwat announces £86 hike in bills from April
A tanker pumping out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane sewage pumping station in Cookham, Berskhire which flooded after heavy rainfall, January 10, 2024

WATER COMPANY fat cats are being rewarded for decades of criminal behaviour, a Labour MP said today after the industry regulator announced an average £86 bill hike from April.

Clive Lewis said billpayers are paying for crooks as he called for water firms to be nationalised and Ofwat abolished. 

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