Anger over profits made by parent company of South West Water

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14 күн бұрын

More than 50 people in Devon have been made ill from contaminated water, as South West Water's owner pockets £166m profit.
There have been calls for the owners of the water company Pennon Group, who are embroiled in the parasitic outbreak in Devon affecting thousands of people, to relinquish dividend payments to shareholders.
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@vincescotian8083 12 күн бұрын

Emmm... No £11M provided from the Water restoration fund v £78Bn in Dividends paid by English Water Companies to shareholders to maintain the level of Sewage

@NatWestC 12 күн бұрын

South West Water Said the water was safe to drink, then they said don’t drink it the next day? Then they find out the valve was broken? So what’s the truth? How long was the valve broken or has it not been tested properly? SWW have messed up big time….

@wildandbarefoot 12 күн бұрын

The value of investments can go down as well as up. About time shareholders took a severe hit.

@williamyoung9401 12 күн бұрын

Or maybe we shouldn't privatize EVERYTHING in our economy?

@williamyoung9401 12 күн бұрын

If the residents had simply bought more Corporate water stock, they could use the dividends to buy bottled water. Problem solved!

@honourthefire9182 12 күн бұрын

Stop allowing banks like JP Morgan to have shares in UK water. There beholding to shareholders not the maintenence of UK rivers. Wake up. This is a catastrophe in the making.

@ScottishRoss27 12 күн бұрын

*English water and English rivers.