Privatisation was supposed to increase competition. Now it's turned into a monopoly. Renationalise trains, gas electric and water. No more millionaire ceos.

fine them, bankrupt them, buy them back cheap and nationalise.

I guess the shareholders will need to hand the dividends back.

If they are on their knees then how do they still get their bonuses?!

Quite simply - NO. Not acceptable in any way, shape or form. We are sick of being taken for fools.

Let them go bankrupt and buy them back on the cheap ... they should NEVER have been sold in the first place. But don't ask me to pay for their failures ... ENOUGH ... I REFUSE!!!

As usual Ofwat boss wasn't challenged by the interviewer about the millions of £ paid to shareholders and CEOs very recently whilst claiming to be on their knees!! (See Thames water) We need media reform!! Shame on channel 4!!!

Get the money from the water company who gave billions to the elite there. The Tories sold off the reservoirs. No hope for gardens, No, we can’t let gardens die.

If the UK chancellor is going along with the 19 pound a year hike on the water bill, then the water company should have a freeze on giving out dividends to shareholder, f they are so strapped for cash.

We pay too much now.for god sake,hike wages up so we can get out of this existence,we need a life.

If we give them MORE money, they should take MORE responsibility and go to PRISON if they fail.

Claw back the dividends and don't pay any more out until the leaks are fixed and the sewage properly treated.

They fucked up why are we paying they should be fined 😅

Price of rain hasn’t gone up, but water has

STOP moving water funds into building stadiums and traffic cameras.

The obscene price and profits of water has to stop. Nationalise them now .

Having worked for Thames Water, there ability to waste money, is sadly edimic, from the ground up Asset stripping, non improvement and repair of systems, misinformation, no planning, should be nationalised.

CRIMNALS

Because the water companies know it’s a vital service and think they have a right to our bank accounts to pay for their fines and new cars. Basically. Privatisation hasn’t worked.

I have to admit that I do not know why a group called OFWAT was set up. If it was to protect the general public, then where is the group that protects the general public from OFWAT. So far they have protected the water companies. Nobody else.

It's like the tv license the water Is not worth the money

Any bill increases should be matched by a stop on dividends for a fixed period ensuring funds go towards infrastructure

Jesus christ in a country where it rains constantly you'd think we would have something

£20 a year doesnt seem like nearly enough there are 20 million households in uk, meaning 5 years investment this is £2bn... for the scale of a whole country that is nothing???

How is a 23 to 44% price rise not an increase?

On a island with water all around

Whats the reason they couldnt tell shareholders to put back in the dividends they taken out in previous years, then if refused revoke license and make it state company.

Big inquiry please - sik some forensic accountants on them. They're NOT on their knees at all - claw back the dividends and bonuses. They are taking the P.

More lies from politicians. It wouldn't cost billions £ to renationalise Thames Water! Take share price total value subtract the total debt then divide the £ worth by the number of share = true value & say you will get the compensation over 5-10 years.

No Dividend until the Money from Water Bills to go into the Infrastructure. Labour needs to give the Regulator real Powers to fine the Water companies. Not give Lip Service to the Public.

Labour MUST nationalise all Water Companies ... if they can't run the water companies properly ... WE WILL. This is just like 2010 when we had to bail out the banks ... thousands of people paid with their lives because of Tory austerity. WHY MUST IT KEEP HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! All our services must be publicly owned!!!

If no one is interested, hold them accountable. and they should go to jail if they didn't respect the law, for them we are a good source of permanent enrichment. And it will bring the price up again and again😢😢😢

More money to pay share dividends

What you will expect there is the CEOs will get bigger bonuses and the employees will get a slight wage increase but nothing will change with the sewage problem. It's all about greed.

But what about their massive profits and didvidend payouts? Why could they dobit when we were in the EU?

My bill just went up £23 a month

No they need ask for all the bonus money being paid to CEO s plus there managers pay back there bonus money . That’s one way for the company get some off there money back or the government take it over . For nothing which is what it’s worth. Same as when they sell a bank for one silver coin.

and how many billion haeve the share holders taken out its time to nationlise it we are paying hem to pollut our rivers and lakes

I wish I knew the solution to this problem. Because on one hand, corporations have to pay more than their fair share in taxes as they got us into the climate mess we are in, so my answer would be, in a state of emergency (because it will be coming), the nation needs to take control of the water and distribute it fairly until machines are normalized to be able to drink ocean water. Then there would need to be a concerted effort to clean the space junk up, then find the nearest planet/asteroid with water, and mine it. That would be my suggestion. But the flip of that coin is, the rich buy the politician, therefore the water would be distributed unevenly anyway. And since it would be expensive to clean the debris of our atmosphere and train astronauts, build the rockets and machines, and fund research on how the transport would take place, companies would have control and would continue to control life saving water that is needed to survive. We normalize drinking ocean, that would sustain us for a time, but nothing is unlimited. Your water bill is going up due to corruption, your water bill will continue to go up as the planet dries up the rivers we abusively use. Somehow, we need to force our leaders to put their dumb Ego’s aside and combine efforts to save all species on planet earth.

Nationalise them.

My electricity has gone up nearly 100 pounds a month and it is due to go up, even more. This is nothing compared to that, that is £1.50 a month.

To everyone who participated in the GE Blame the Government for privatising Fools!

What a disgrace

LET THE SHAREHOLDERS PAY FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS . THEY HAVE BEEN MILKING THE PUBLIC FOR YEARS .

I'm sorry what? An increase in bills of 21% is an increase £19 a year? That means people are paying £90 a year for water? We pay nearly that every month.

I refuse to pay it just as I refuse to pay council tax we are mot their slaves these CEOs are on millions per year. Those who voted consented to it let them pay for it.

My former president called me snd demanded golden showers.

Outdoor outhouse built again just as my great grandparents had done as I use only 3 gallons a day for toilet & wash dish. I buy water for consumption because 94596 building has lead pipes harmful to humans animals.

Get a water meter fitted. You'll save a lot more than that.

Wow

Chris walters, theres a dude whos got a nice job waiting at one of these companies, once he leaves ofwat

14 years of total power. Result = nothing.

Oh gosh. £1.60 a month. However will we cope.

Another way for the gov to line their pockets

Unknown is edit or not....but just lose time...much better do something...you know child poverty...

Billions and billions for Project Ukraine, while back in the empire, the average person suffers.

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I seen different information today on the Microsoft news boulet. Figer not 19£ but 100£