'Nowhere to hide' for water companies, vows government in industry shake up
The creaking water industry is set for a "once-in-a-generation set of reforms", the government has said as it proposes new legislation to overhaul the system.
Steve Reed has conceded that the bulk of the £104bn of water industry investment which he boasts Labour has attracted since coming to office will come from bill payers.
The system for regulating water companies in England and Wales should be overhauled and replaced with one single body in England and another in Wales, a once-in-a-generation review of the sector has advised....
As an independent review sets out a vision for cleaning up the water industry, a real-world example of why the sector is in such deep trouble floats into view.
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