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How can you create a market for water? Genuine question.
It's national infrastructure providing a basic need, not a commercial opportunity. Privatisation of it has been a disaster, allowing rapacious shareholders to make millions of pounds whilst investment in infrastructure has fallen off a cliff and unscrupulous management have caused an environmental catastrophe on a national scale. The regulator has done fuck all to address it, and it'll be left to Labour to fix yet another Tory fuck up.
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Not a huge fan of nationalisation but also not a fan of them hemoraging money and literal raw sewage.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/27/water-companies-in-england-face-outrage-over-record-sewage-discharges