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Renationalising Thames Water would be a gamble – but there is another way to help clean up the industry

  • Written by: J. Robert Branston, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics, University of Bath
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The privatisation of water companies in England and Wales was supposed to bring efficiency and investment to a vital sector that had been starved of public funding. But since 1989, the industry has failed to invest sufficiently in replacing antiquated pipes and sewage treatment systems.

Rivers and seas have become...

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