'Ofwat Has Failed' Water Bills to Increase by £19 Over 5 Years

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'Ofwat Has Failed' Water Bills to Increase by £19 Over 5 Years

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Ofwat has announced customer bills are proposed to increase on average by £19 over the next 5 years. Feargal Sharkey tells Kate and Ed that 'Ofwat is to blame and should take responsibility.'
But Senior Director for the Price Review at Ofwat Chris Walters says there will be an investment package in water and wastewater services.
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@atlasgabriel5461 Ай бұрын

Fergal Sharkey has done fantastic work in highlighting the failures of the water companies and the regulators and keeping it in the headlines.

@kappaslapper14 Ай бұрын

Take our water back from these criminals !

@Dannym-uy1ur Ай бұрын

We pay for their greed!!!

@Chris-pv2ht Ай бұрын

And there incompetence

@cpcnw Ай бұрын

Ban Bonuses completely until rivers / sea's are cleaned up.

@kanedNunable Ай бұрын

and ban shareholder payouts. anyway, a bonus should be for hitting a target, if you get it anyway its not a bonus, its part of your salary!

@cpcnw Ай бұрын

Take water back into public hands. Private owners / shareholders always looking to increase profits which usually means cutting something?

@billhowie21 Ай бұрын

Ofwat needs to be gone ASAP

@TheWebstaff Ай бұрын

Then what? Free for all?

@keldsleepnot7961 Ай бұрын

Nah. It just needs overhauling and to be given powers that make a difference. I would be quite surprised if he's still in charge of ofwatt in 6 months time. So far it looks like labour intend to change it all. Giving them powers to withhold bonuses and hold CEO s and the like legally responsible individually. I don't know if Labour intend to legislate so that the companies can't just add their fines to our bills but I think that they most definitely should

@alandavies4174 Ай бұрын

@@billhowie21 Oftwat more like!

@peteratkin3788 Ай бұрын

no Ofwat need to get there teeth back and the tory/oligarchy influence removed.

@alanfrost4661 Ай бұрын

Time to tell the water companys tough s**t no more money till sewage sorted out

@PJH13 Ай бұрын

I think the whole point is they need the money in order to clean-up said s**t

@thecrimsondragon9744 Ай бұрын

@@PJH13The government should penalise shareholders and CEOs, make them cough up what was not theirs to take in the first place. That should help raise some funds. Also government should take possession of majority shares at an appropriate point in the future with no compensation to shareholders for part taking in this criminal scheme and scam.

@PJH13 Ай бұрын

@@thecrimsondragon9744 This is a hugely dangerous idea that would make generations of UK citizens poorer. The UK being a safe place to invest, with respect for the rule of law is undoubtedly the most important reason that we are a wealthy nation. Taking shares in a business without compensating owners fairly would a) be illegal under international law b) make companies very reluctant to ever invest in the UK again and c) give license every country where a UK business owns assets to do the same. For example Thames Water is 1/3rd owned by the Canadian public employees retirement fund. Canada is one of our closest allies, how do you think they will react if we try to steal from their pensioners?

@irwinsaltzman979 Ай бұрын

1. Stop allowing dividends. 2. Cut out the bonuses. 3. And maybe nationalize the public water companies. My question for the media is why did you not report on this over the years.

@isabelstokes4042 Ай бұрын

In Scotland our water is already nationalised. We have no problems at all. This is all Margaret Thatcher's fault. She'd have privatised fresh air if she could.

@user-ch7ri7sm7h Ай бұрын

Feargal sharky should be given a knighthood for standing up and speaking the truth on behalf of the public well done sir ....bravo ! 👏

@davidfernandes1608 Ай бұрын

Water bill going up by £20 a year and it's breaking news. Rent going up by £300 a year, silence...

@kinggeoffrey3801 Ай бұрын

My mortgage went from £600-£1100.

@lucasmoreno5330 Ай бұрын

Mortgages have gone from 1% to over 6%. Landlords are forced to sell, reducing availability, resulting in higher rents.

@caffs7777 Ай бұрын

my rent went up by £300 a month, that's £3,600 a year. You're absolutely right, water price rise is nothing in comparison :(

@marumaru6084 Ай бұрын

Yeah but rent increases are a direct link to immigration

@cpcnw Ай бұрын

That's a different video.

@TheBigears1 Ай бұрын

Personally, I think that everyone should refuse to pay the increase, until the water boards have sorted out the complete and utter mess they have created. All bonuses should be stopped and every outlet should be monitored for any discharge. When and only then should consideration be given to an increase in bills. Oh and the regulator should be sacked for allowing the water boards to get away with their appalling behaviour!

@fpvDRE Ай бұрын

hear hear stop your direct debits to them they will soon turn around

@CookieDee11 Ай бұрын

How?

@jakereevesward4562 Ай бұрын

@@fpvDRE Aye and they'll soon turn around and cut off your water.

@Leon-lt5gv Ай бұрын

Dont pay it fullstop i say 🤑

@TheWebstaff Ай бұрын

@@jakereevesward4562they can't cut you off. But we do need to start seeing improvements.

@blaircorral8158 Ай бұрын

How can it be deemed acceptable to to take a profit from something essential to life itself?

@Wayne-wm6wq 14 күн бұрын

Yes it's a human right the govt pay them we pay again double dipping so I don't pay it as there's no contract and they aren't allowed to turn it off and it's not even water just a chemical mess

@mickreaddin4979 Ай бұрын

You should have let Feargal have at him.

@kruger-3522 Ай бұрын

SHARKEY, the man, the legend !!!!

@darkdonzaloog Ай бұрын

imo its harder to tell which is full of more 💩ofwat or the rivers

@TheWebstaff Ай бұрын

😂 👏

@christopherday1568 Ай бұрын

Ofwat

@howardgayton2127 Ай бұрын

There needs to be threat of custodial sentences and proper enforcement - fines just get put on bills. They are a monopoly and eventually need to be brought back into public hands - but not by taking over their debts.

@peacelilly75 Ай бұрын

Bring it back to the public domain let's stop messing about

@TheWebstaff Ай бұрын

Or coops I don't understand why we don't have more coops. Or not for profits companies.

@matthewv4170 Ай бұрын

@@TheWebstaffit should be nationalised and turned into public good organisation

@christopherday1568 Ай бұрын

@@TheWebstaff exactly!

@alandavies4174 Ай бұрын

I've worked as an electrical designer on many of these sites. All the water companies need to do is to make much deeper storm overflow chambers, it's the lack of storm overflow storage that causes the overflows and leaks. In a climate that is getting much wetter in the UK, it's a recipe for disaster if not done! 👍

@TheWebstaff Ай бұрын

That and get rid of combined drains.

@ianmann7953 Ай бұрын

Fergal really does have a good ❤....which these days is hard to find....

@davidkeeling5726 Ай бұрын

Keep at them Fergal ,true Legend

@Ayeright. Ай бұрын

Good to see the benefits of Tory privatisation working out.

@mick947 Ай бұрын

Tory and labour. Blair almost single-handedly privatised a good portion of the NHS. And when the banks failed, it was labours light touch as they called it, that was partly to blame. Thatcher was the ultimate ghoul but Blair comes a close second, and at least thatcher told you what she was doing, Blair just betrayed us.

@Thegreyreaperuk Ай бұрын

Get all our utilities back in house. We are in this mess cos of Thatcher, nobody else. They should never have been privatised😡

@katejackson7432 Ай бұрын

they shud get prison time!

@KrisRogos Ай бұрын

£19 a year? My bill has already increased by £12 a month this year with no change in usage. It's time for a fun phone call, I suspect!

@martinfloyd6891 Ай бұрын

I would suspect that some, if not most politicians, have shares in these very, very profitable organisations.

@doubleknocker5221 Ай бұрын

The billions lost to foreign 'investors' in dividends, inflated directors' pay - the revolving door between Ofwat managers who then go to work for Water Companies is what should be looked at.

@eddiegallagher2767 Ай бұрын

they had one job to protect the consumer and they didnt plain and simple

@billwilliams5829 Ай бұрын

fergal- top man.

@barbarajones9385 Ай бұрын

The guy just repeats the problems, with a benign smile!

@BoogieKnight1976 Ай бұрын

Daylight robbery !!

@chrisperry3430 Ай бұрын

Yet again the customer subsidises over rewarded share holders and huge undeserved bonuses for the bosses

@TheRealTitanGamer Ай бұрын

the gvt needs to take it away from private sector

@anllpp Ай бұрын

Privatisation lol. How on earth should national infrastructure be privatised is beyond me. Tories and business are one and the same. Appalling...the world gone greedy mad basically

@mayhawk3064 Ай бұрын

Billions in investment at no extra cost to customers. Is that not taxpayers money? Where do they think that comes from?

@50brian50 Ай бұрын

Starkey should be on the honors list every time he speaks he makes sense not like ofwat who are in the pockets of the companies

@crispyduck1706 Ай бұрын

And the evidence you have is ……. ?

@erikschmidt476 Ай бұрын

Since rail privatization went so amazingly well, I was also expecting the water industry to always place the public first!..... oh wait

@briangreenidge8191 Ай бұрын

Replace the whole organisation of OFWAT with one with a backbone that works for the water users.

@monged4life442 Ай бұрын

We acted immediately... to ensure that nothing interupted it for the next 3 years.

@jayseabie215 Ай бұрын

He's his family's pride and joy, his mother's little golden boy.

@MrJohnnyseven 8 күн бұрын

He's my perfect cousin

@gavinjones2965 Ай бұрын

It's a good job I collect my own and dont need to pay for it

@fpvDRE Ай бұрын

what with the bonus the bosses get LOL get fked

@user-sm5jt2lg1h Ай бұрын

Well done. You made him skirm. Is he complicit?

@ivormectin.3046 Ай бұрын

Big investment.. at bill payers expense.. How is that right. ?? Water is a human god given right.

@Graham-rc1cp Ай бұрын

Meanwhile in Scotland…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@wudipest Ай бұрын

Ofwat is to blame. Useless, toothless. Ofwat fine the companies but allow the companies to recoup that by increasing bills. So it's the customers who pay the fines whilst the directors and shareholders get off scott free.

@sarahsarah4271 Ай бұрын

I’m on a water meter bit of a saving but was told that my water had gone up by 4.8% which they never notified me by how much.

@MrJohnnyseven 8 күн бұрын

Support Fergal

@leighvaughton2740 Ай бұрын

I'm guessing that £19 will go directly to shareholders.

@cliveharrison4507 Ай бұрын

spot on £19x 6000000 customers =£115M just about enough for the shareholders, delay the infrastructure work put that on hold for now, leave that for the next owner

@martinmcdonald4207 Ай бұрын

People complain about the TV license and are refusing to pay up. Why don`t the public show the same contempt to water charges. Get your priorities in order. Simply refuse to pay these criminals for destroying British Water.

@aethellstan Ай бұрын

he said "when information came to light about the seriousness of the sewage spills in 2021" so someone tell me why they had no idea about the seriousness of the situation in the preceding fifteen years even though he was supposed to be monitoring it? he and ofwat are a joke. we are paying for his incompetence and the water companies greed and fraud.

@PicturebikeMXphotography Ай бұрын

How many back handers has Chris Walters had.....

@dalebenton3354 Ай бұрын

we pay for Anglian Water to get all our water cleaned up and pumped back in to the water supply to be re used again

@rustynail1194 Ай бұрын

Thatcher's legacy right there. Greed and mismanagement 👍

@user-pq3jm5yc6y Ай бұрын

A knighthood for Mr Sharkey then hold the CEO of the water company’s to REAL account.

@crncrn6370 Ай бұрын

£19 a year? Not really soaring is it

@fpvDRE Ай бұрын

yeah £19 a year for a crapper service carry on paying lol

@crncrn6370 Ай бұрын

@fpvDRE how do you know it will be worse? New government should hold these companies to account more.

@TheWebstaff Ай бұрын

@@crncrn6370that's it, £19 a year and they sort the problems would be fine. But I think they need to make it a legal agreement. If they fail, they hand over the business to become a coop or national owned company.

@straightouttacornwall Ай бұрын

@@crncrn6370 I think the guy is right. More and more people coming here and theres no investment, no reservoirs being built and more cash going to shareholders. I don't see it improving but happy to be proven wrong

@x_____________ Ай бұрын

@@crncrn6370 lol it's funny you think that. Governments are all the same and nothing will change, doesn't matter who it is

@muncherman4376 Ай бұрын

Nothing will change until the people wake up

@garyholyhead Ай бұрын

I think it's what the mob calls skimming 🕵‍♀🕵‍♀

@matthewwiddows6319 Ай бұрын

TW dump sewage because its cheaper than processing it, they get a small fine just so ofwat can virtue signal. why would TW not do this, good business sense, and protects dividend payouts to share holders.

@matthewwiddows6319 Ай бұрын

well done to TW, can load the company up on debt for day to running, instead of using revenue\income which you cream off in dividends, you get to a state that would bankrupt any normal small or large business, but ofwat step in and just get the public to bail you out. can't really fault TW for being able to get away with this!!!

@colinsmith1288 Ай бұрын

Nationalise the waterways. Let the government start buying shares.

@dolceanstar Ай бұрын

Chris Walters should have his assets frozen whilst investigated for criminal mismanagement and, if found guilty, issued with waders so he can clear up the national foetid environment that he created

@isabelstokes4042 Ай бұрын

Our water in Scotland is nationalised. We don't have any problem.

@cliveharrison4507 Ай бұрын

Well done Scotland don't give in to greed,

@robtheplod Ай бұрын

Excellent, I'd like to pay more for failure please!

@ViVids555 Ай бұрын

Reaction to the new measures have been strong.....so far we've spoken to Fergal Sharkey.

@muncherman4376 Ай бұрын

The whole system is corrupt

@kellykreqeli8924 Ай бұрын

They have already doubled in the last year they are taking the nick Why should we pay for their mistakes

@alanwilson4248 Ай бұрын

Scrap Ofwat. Clearly it's a job for the boys. As a customer, we need protection not Ofwat allowing water companies to do what they want, when they want to include bonuses to the detriment of people.

@positiveenergy9134 Ай бұрын

A good water company 💧these days is hard to find

@Angel-xq9yz Ай бұрын

thank you , Labour , already increasing inflation

@user-cs1dt2xw4c Ай бұрын

Stop playing these polluting money grabbing scammers.

@MrDeadhead1952 Ай бұрын

I'm sorry but Ofwat where waiting for the sewage discharges to 'come to light' defines the problem. Ofwats job is to be checking of these and if they had been doing their job they have the powers to dtop it.

@MrLaking123 Ай бұрын

the water should clean there own mess up

@obeanddarth Ай бұрын

How much of the price increase is going towards bonuses?

@EwaRiro Ай бұрын

🤣😂 - the LEGAL migrant workers are to blame

@amenhotepv2844 Ай бұрын

The dividends must increase in line with inflation.

@GaryColeman-xp1zy Ай бұрын

All these govt quangos are a waste of money

@dalebenton3354 Ай бұрын

What a surprise,Nothing ever be any cheaper,More crises under Labour party,They say they get rid of crises

@tommyrotton9468 Ай бұрын

I don't understand. My bill went up already this year by a large amount, is this going to be on top of that?

@user-yq3nu5hd6n Ай бұрын

Scamming Only labour will do This This is just the beginning Council tax will also increase Council tax out of date like the BBC licence

@DavidJohnson-dc8lu Ай бұрын

It won't for me that is for sure, and I will be investing in a water filter system that can take 10 litres of water and turn it into 40 minutes of pure shower water, and with a UV filter later the recycling can go on for even much longer, some say infinite!

@jujutrini8412 Ай бұрын

Can we have a proper Ministry for Consumers that actually puts consumers as their number one interest?

@e13kid Ай бұрын

Nationalise it

@russferris9149 Ай бұрын

I thought Labour were going to nationalise it

@manindersingh8385 Ай бұрын

Something stinks in OFWAT

@peteraston4753 Ай бұрын

Stop the increases ban the shareholders dividends and ceo,s bonus,s if they go bankrupt so what do not give them any more money the last lot was hand outs in dividends

@amandaburns4568 Ай бұрын

Thankyou fergal🙏🏻 l

@alanbranfield614 Ай бұрын

For what dividends and bonuses

@oojimmyflip Ай бұрын

the goverments allowed pumping of raw sewage into rivers and the sea for years it is a goverment fault issue not the water companies, no-one stopped to think of the damage that might be caused, profits for shareholders were the only consideration, it has been people like Edd who are to blame for this enviromental catastrophey.

@youtybebw Ай бұрын

Totally incompetent regular

@philipgardner-uz5ne Ай бұрын

All regulators,r set up without enough,staff,powers,deliberately 😢

@Wayne-wm6wq 14 күн бұрын

So i dont pay it theres no contract

@colinroutledge5634 Ай бұрын

Make public pay for greedy companies share holdsrs

@MohammedMagdi-yh3kr Ай бұрын

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@billysastard8779 Ай бұрын

Who does not like to swim neck deep in benefits of Brexit?

@jamesrashbrook9485 Ай бұрын

The water companies were privatised in 1989 are you saying you wasn't doing your job for 34 years until 2021 and gave water companies free ride to break the law and licence permits

@TheWebstaff Ай бұрын

No it's more like someone loosing there eyesight over time.