A Rising Tide For Shareholders While Bill Payers Struggle to Stay Afloat: Who Owns Britain’s Water?

Iain Overton reports on the hidden foreign profiteers behind the UK’s most essential utility

Britain’s water industry appears to be at breaking point.

Leaking pipes, record sewage spills, and mounting public outrage over soaring bills will have left many households wondering: who really owns this nation’s water?

As the English churchman and historian Thomas Fuller once wrote, “we never know the worth of water till the well is dry”. Now, as debt-laden water companies look set to sink, the well indeed seems to be running dry.

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