Don’t OFWAT control price rises? (Or at least set the limit by which they’re allowed to rise?) This feels like the annual whinge about train fares, rises of which are also limited by a regulator.
>Severn Trent said the rise would mean average household bills would increase by £26 per year.
>”We’ll have to start cutting down on other things. Perhaps we won’t go on holiday in future. We’ve got one booked in August but, after that, I really don’t know.
They might have to cancel future holidays due to a £26 a year rise in their water bill but not due to the rises in the prices of both gas and electricity which are likely to be far higher than that? Unless they’re talking about price rises on the whole, which they don’t seem to be, it seems a little disingenuous.
They are owned by private equity company HIG capitol. The route cause is that the conservatives sold off utilities. These were utility companies built by Victorian philanthropists that in turn made the money to do this from the labour of our forefathers. This didn’t stop the conservative grabbing utilities and selling them off, primarily to make millions from share dealing with friends and so that when their short lived political careers end they have a lucrative non executive role in said companies. This was all neatly packed as “the free market economy” where completion drives down prices and improves service…like it has for trains, busses, utilities, the post office and brexit. Unfortunately, people never learn and keep voting for these villans.
Severn Trent water saw record profits in the first half of 2021 of more than £20m bringing pre tax profits up to £146.9m up from £126.5m in 2020
Well then guess I’m gonna be collecting rain water now
If that’s the inflation rate, and it seems to be, then the bill hasn’t actually moved.
If your employer hasn’t given you the same then they’ve cut your wages and you can’t really expect water companies or whoever else to “make up the difference” in your wages.
And remember, this is what people have voted for in the last 3 elections (plus the brexit vote). Printing money, ever higher house prices, give it to us now and fuck the consequences, (plus the usually “the Tories will make poor people pay and I have a 200k mortgage so I’m basically in the 1% you know” crowd).
Electricity bill goes up so the price of shipping that water everywhere goes up. It’s not that difficult really.
The real question is why are we not using the human waste to create biogas, which in turn can be burnt I. Generators to power the pumps on these sites and reduce energy costs…
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Don’t OFWAT control price rises? (Or at least set the limit by which they’re allowed to rise?) This feels like the annual whinge about train fares, rises of which are also limited by a regulator.
>Severn Trent said the rise would mean average household bills would increase by £26 per year.
>”We’ll have to start cutting down on other things. Perhaps we won’t go on holiday in future. We’ve got one booked in August but, after that, I really don’t know.
They might have to cancel future holidays due to a £26 a year rise in their water bill but not due to the rises in the prices of both gas and electricity which are likely to be far higher than that? Unless they’re talking about price rises on the whole, which they don’t seem to be, it seems a little disingenuous.
They are owned by private equity company HIG capitol. The route cause is that the conservatives sold off utilities. These were utility companies built by Victorian philanthropists that in turn made the money to do this from the labour of our forefathers. This didn’t stop the conservative grabbing utilities and selling them off, primarily to make millions from share dealing with friends and so that when their short lived political careers end they have a lucrative non executive role in said companies. This was all neatly packed as “the free market economy” where completion drives down prices and improves service…like it has for trains, busses, utilities, the post office and brexit. Unfortunately, people never learn and keep voting for these villans.
Severn Trent water saw record profits in the first half of 2021 of more than £20m bringing pre tax profits up to £146.9m up from £126.5m in 2020
[link](https://www.insidermedia.com/news/midlands/profits-jump-by-more-than-20m-at-severn-trent)
Well then guess I’m gonna be collecting rain water now
If that’s the inflation rate, and it seems to be, then the bill hasn’t actually moved.
If your employer hasn’t given you the same then they’ve cut your wages and you can’t really expect water companies or whoever else to “make up the difference” in your wages.
And remember, this is what people have voted for in the last 3 elections (plus the brexit vote). Printing money, ever higher house prices, give it to us now and fuck the consequences, (plus the usually “the Tories will make poor people pay and I have a 200k mortgage so I’m basically in the 1% you know” crowd).
Electricity bill goes up so the price of shipping that water everywhere goes up. It’s not that difficult really.
The real question is why are we not using the human waste to create biogas, which in turn can be burnt I. Generators to power the pumps on these sites and reduce energy costs…