Thames Water leak 24% of their entire supply while recording substantial profits.
Their senior management should be removed from office for such reckless mismanagement of our most precious resource.
Is our need for water really as important as their need to make silly amounts of profits?
I left Thames water last year after joining them for only a year as the incidents I witnessed were appalling, bullying management, condescending behaviours to staff and customers and being totally unprepared for expected incidents such as the one listed above. When the flooding’s occurred in London and predominantly tube stations etc., they fully expected it to happen however because it was ‘council jurisdiction’ and not theirs they avoided it and didn’t care.
I’m sure someone saw the warnings, did a calculation about whether it would affect profits and thought:
> Fuck it. What are the plebs going to do. Change to a different water company?
Privatisation of all these natural monopolies was a con from the start.
Thames Water’s leaky pipes don’t surprise me. When I last saw their engineers doing some work on my street the guy was using dowsing rods to try to locate the pipe work.
It’s a wonder they get anything done.
I mean there was litterally a full report of a pipe bursting in islington flooding the entire street…
Is that not enough evidence on how shit Thames water is?
Water companies, an essential service, should never be privatised in the first place
Example: Thames water could be nationalised, it made a profit in 2020/2021 of about 100 million
They could, if nationalised, re-invest 50% into infrastructure, 25% into an emergency fund, 25% into a “British future infrastructure fund”
All nationalised companies should be run this way. Then the “British future infrastructure fund” can funds things like nationalised wind and solar farms, hydrogen infrastructure
Just an idea but then foresight has and never will be a strong point of the tories, whether they have any at all is debatable
“Some of you will die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to pay.”
I once went for a job interview at Thames Water and they asked me what I thought the company did.
They seemed unimpressed with my answer of “Supplying drinking water and processing waste water and sewage”
Clearly the correct answer was “maximising shareholder profit by doing as little as possible”
Man this privatisation has been a resounding success (for shareholders).
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Thames Water leak 24% of their entire supply while recording substantial profits.
Their senior management should be removed from office for such reckless mismanagement of our most precious resource.
Is our need for water really as important as their need to make silly amounts of profits?
I left Thames water last year after joining them for only a year as the incidents I witnessed were appalling, bullying management, condescending behaviours to staff and customers and being totally unprepared for expected incidents such as the one listed above. When the flooding’s occurred in London and predominantly tube stations etc., they fully expected it to happen however because it was ‘council jurisdiction’ and not theirs they avoided it and didn’t care.
I’m sure someone saw the warnings, did a calculation about whether it would affect profits and thought:
> Fuck it. What are the plebs going to do. Change to a different water company?
Privatisation of all these natural monopolies was a con from the start.
Thames Water’s leaky pipes don’t surprise me. When I last saw their engineers doing some work on my street the guy was using dowsing rods to try to locate the pipe work.
It’s a wonder they get anything done.
I mean there was litterally a full report of a pipe bursting in islington flooding the entire street…
Is that not enough evidence on how shit Thames water is?
Water companies, an essential service, should never be privatised in the first place
Example: Thames water could be nationalised, it made a profit in 2020/2021 of about 100 million
They could, if nationalised, re-invest 50% into infrastructure, 25% into an emergency fund, 25% into a “British future infrastructure fund”
All nationalised companies should be run this way. Then the “British future infrastructure fund” can funds things like nationalised wind and solar farms, hydrogen infrastructure
Just an idea but then foresight has and never will be a strong point of the tories, whether they have any at all is debatable
“Some of you will die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to pay.”
I once went for a job interview at Thames Water and they asked me what I thought the company did.
They seemed unimpressed with my answer of “Supplying drinking water and processing waste water and sewage”
Clearly the correct answer was “maximising shareholder profit by doing as little as possible”
Man this privatisation has been a resounding success (for shareholders).
What a fantastic business model.