Tis the season to be jolly and the season of good will, but beware, it is also the sewage dumping season . This is the time of year when water companies discharge most of the untreated sewage they are unable to deal with, legally or illegally. Most of the time it is not this obvious. As this is entirely the responsibility of the senior management and owners of water companies, and not the fault of the employees who have to work with the consequences of underinvestment, we s

From a confidence in government point of view, can it get any worse than this? How would you get on without water from the tap or a...

The final report from the independent Water Commission, led by Sir Jon Cunliffe, arrived on July 21st, 464 pages and 88 recommendations....

When our government came to power a year ago, it could have taken Thames Water into Special Administration, meaning protective public...

Following the last blog in which we showed what is wrong with the Water Commission and why we should not just sit back and watch it being...

An 'Independent' Water Commission - really? Is the idea that the Water Commission could end the sewage scandal already dead in the...

According to Thames Water, upgrading Oxford Sewage Treatment Works (STW) to cope with an extra 29,000 people will cost the same as...

No, not that one. Taking in the detail On 17th March the Appeal Court Judges announced their decision to uphold the High Court's decision...

The sewage dumping numbers are out and it's worse than ever. Four years after WASP's Prof Peter Hammond ripped the lid off the sewage...

The Appeal Court has announced that it will not overturn the High Court decision to allow Thames Water to add £3 billion debt to the...