Lawrence Gosden’s award comes amid high levels of corporate debt, serious sewage leaks and recent hosepipe ban
    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      111·
      6 days ago

      The corpos are getting brazen because the government is captured by the parasite class.

      Collusion to fuck peasants who mostly will accept it

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    Gary Carter, a national officer at the GMB union, which represents thousands of water industry workers, said: “For Southern Water’s boss to trouser more than a million pounds after just announcing a hosepipe ban and losing millions of litres in leaks every single day is abhorrent.

    Sounds like some enterprising person needs to drill a well in London and benefit from all that freshwater replenishing London’s water table.

    kagis

    Apparently Coca-Cola is on the job.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/25/foreign-firms-taking-billions-of-litres-from-uk-aquifers-to-make-bottled-water

    Coca-Cola extracts the largest amount of freshwater of any drinks company in England, the data obtained through freedom of information legislation shows. It has a licence to extract 1.59bn litres of water a year from boreholes in Sidcup, Kent for its soft drinks.

    EDIT: Apparently Coca-Cola is extracting water from Thames Water’s service area, and what with all the articles about Thames Water, I didn’t notice that this article was about Southern Water, but Thames Water apparently leaks vastly more water than Southern Water does anyway.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/08/water-firms-in-england-and-wales-lost-more-than-1tn-litres-from-leaks-last-year

    Water companies in England and Wales lost more than one trillion litres of water last year in leaks, the Observer can reveal.

    The figures, based on the companies’ 2023-24 annual performance reports, show that millions of litres of water were leaked every day.

    The worst performer was Thames Water, which leaked 570.4 megalitres a day last year, or more than 200bn litres in total, equivalent to just under a quarter of its entire water supply. A megalitre is one million litres.

    The company said in its 2023-24 annual report that this was “our lowest ever leakage”.

    I suppose that given sufficient time, water probably tends to migrate from areas with a higher water table to areas with a lower water table anyway, and the two water companies serve adjacent areas.

  • Denjin@lemmings.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    Fuck the water companies, fuck their CEOs, fuck bonus payments for mismanagement. Either strengthen the regulator to be able to personally fine board members or Nationalise these wastes of air and money.