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Water firms face backlash for claiming that capping bills will harm efforts to stop sewage leaks
A tanker from Thames Water pumps water into another tanker in the village of Northend in Oxfordshire, August 10, 2022
CUSTOMERS should not bear the cost of water companies’ failures, campaigners warned today.
Water firms have funded a report suggesting that capping customer bills would harm efforts to stop sewage leaks.
The report by Water UK, the trade association which represents all of Britain’s water firms, took aim at regulator Ofwat’s proposal to cap water bill rises to £19 a year on average.
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