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Water bills set to rise by £19 a year (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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As a Thames Water “customer” (given the complete lack of competition maybe “hostage” is a better term) who will have a £20 rise per year, and as someone with no money I’m fine with paying an extra £1.65 a month for water, but not to Thames Water who will inevitably use that money to pay shareholders dividends.

If it stops us from dumping raw sewage into the rivers and oceans I’ll happily pay ten times as much, but it’s clear that Thames Water is just corrupt, and cannot be trusted with any extra money.

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

Pretty obvious that water should be nationalised. And anything else which is a natural monopoly for that matter.