Critics argue that shareholders in the [UK] water companies have received billions of pounds in dividends since privatization but failed to put enough money back into the water system while piling up debt. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/b...

Amid a Water Crisis, England Asks: Who Should Be in Charge?

Four decades after privatization, calls to nationalize the water industry have swept across England and Wales amid sewage spills and rising household bills.

ICK. While swimming in the Thames, said Laura Reineke, 51, a Henley resident who started the Henley Mermaids, the group has also seen sanitary products caught in the plants, colostomy bags and what appear to be excrement marks on swans.