Tag: water companies

Environment Food News

Eight of Nine Water Firms Fail Environment Test

Siobhan O’Donnell

Ninth Gets Plaque for Basic Plumbing LONDON, England — Britain’s water industry has reached a remarkable milestone: eight of England’s nine major water and sewerage companies either need improvement or perform poorly on environmental standards. The ninth is expected to receive a commemorative plaque for understanding that sewage belongs inside pipes. Environment Agency Water Company Ratings 2025 The Environment Agency’s 2025 environmental performance report recorded 74 serious pollution incidents in…

Business

Thames Water Hires Noah, Who Asks Where the Pipes Are

Cyndi Himmelstiere

The Water Company’s Perspective: Noah Survived Forty Days of Rain Without Requesting £2.4 Billion in Additional Financing LONDON, ENGLAND: Thames Water has appointed Noah as its Chief Biblical Resilience Officer after executives concluded that the man who survived the world’s most famous flood might possess useful expertise in managing Britain’s increasingly complicated relationship with water. Noah’s appointment followed renewed concerns about the company’s finances and water supplies. According to Reuters’…

Political Governance

Andy Burnham Adopts Corporate Strategy: First Prepare the Ground, Then Nationalise Whatever Is Standing on It

Vivienne Pratfall

Labour discovers nationalisation becomes considerably less alarming when introduced through phrases containing “partnership,” “strategic” and “public” LONDON – Prime Minister Andy Burnham has embraced an innovative corporate strategy in which the government first prepares the political ground, smooths it carefully, consults stakeholders, produces several diagrams and then announces that whatever happens to be standing on the ground would operate better under public control. Water, Care, Transport: Burnham’s Public Control Agenda…