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...In such regions, smaller, decentralised forms of storage are needed....
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...Troubled UK utility Thames Water has pushed up the amount it plans to spend on its network in its latest business plan by £1.1bn to £19.8bn....
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...These include food shortages and population displacement due to natural disasters, or regions becoming uninhabitable because they are too hot....
...Sam Dunkley is right that the mixing of clean and dirty water in Joseph Bazalgette’s sewers gives us a problem today (Letters, April 24)....
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...The cost, 200 kroner (£23) for two courses is absurdly reasonable for a meal of such quality in a hotel in a European capital....
...In today’s newsletter: Thames Water’s Chinese lenders AT1 documents fight Blackstone’s luxury sale Thames Water’s Chinese stand-off Critics of Britain’s water company privatisation have recently accused...
...Thames Water said on Monday that the additional capital spending over the five years to 2030 would enable it to deliver environmental improvements without any increase to the 40 per cent jump in customer...
...If the regulator allows them to do so, this is one way to increase their financial returns, so long as they do not make a mess of capital spending....
...The complexity of Thames Water’s capital structure means that bondholders are now jostling for position, with rival groups banding together and hiring restructuring advisers....
...Government contingency plans for a potential nationalisation of Thames Water, which has become a focus for public anger over sewage pollution and mistrust of England’s privatised water system, emerged last...
...Google chief financial officer Ruth Porat said capital expenditure would jump 50 per cent or more to at least $48bn this year....
...“One of the requirements for deploying those dollars is that they mobilise private capital,” says Hakeem....
...Back in Barcelona, David Mascort, the minister for climate action in Aragonès’ government, says the region is investing heavily in solutions for its water crisis, including in desalination plants....
...to the region.”...
...There is no electricity or running water, with residents largely reliant on supplies that arrive by donkey. Shortages meant goods such as meat and sugar have doubled in price....
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