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The Earth’s supply of freshwater is under increasing pressure from economic development, population growth and climate change.
...Ofwat said: “We have increased regulatory challenge, scrutiny and monitoring of companies that require action to improve their financial resilience . . . water companies need to make sure they have the right...
...So the fact that we have most of our municipal users on junior water rights and most of our agricultural water is in senior water rights, that creates a public policy challenge for us....
...We left buzzing on proximity to danger and tequila sodas passed around like water (trickily, called “ranch water”)....
...Furthermore, we are heading towards an election this year and polling shows that nationalisation of utilities is a popular policy among voters on both the left and right....
...When land ice melts at the poles as a result of increasing temperatures, water streams into the oceans, redistributing mass across the earth and further from the axis of rotation....
...This is a big test of UK capitalism. Get Thames Water right and the case for private ownership of utilities will be enhanced....
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...New workers’ rights incoming next month It can be hard to keep up with all the changes to employment rights but, handily, April 6 marks the introduction of a few that are important to note....
...Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary, has defended the UK’s membership of the European Court of Human Rights, describing it as a privilege that has “protected the rights of thousands of British...
...of the world’s rare-earth mining and close to 90 per cent of processing and refining, according to the International Energy Agency....
...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)....
...The threat of another parched summer in Spain is pitting tourists against local residents and left against right in battles over water in the country’s holiday hotspots....
...Europe’s top human rights court has ruled that the Swiss government’s failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions can be considered a violation of citizens’ rights, in a decision that will set a benchmark for...
...A proposed reform to Poland’s abortion rights has caused the first splits within Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coalition and started alienating some of its core voters....
...In view of Thames Water’s critical situation, an independent “Time to come clean on drinking water” Tsar, preferably — without shares in Perrier, Evian or our water companies — should therefore be promptly...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 11. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...a group of foreign investors of “blackmailing” regulators over the future of the country’s biggest water utility....
...On Thursday, Biden framed the decision in Alabama as part of a broader attack on women’s rights and an erosion of legal protections around reproductive care....
...Its existing portfolio of more than 2,000 titles includes the publishing rights to films such as Aquaman and distribution rights of The Jungle Book....
...The commerce ministry in Beijing said on Thursday it was banning the export of technologies used in rare earth extraction and separation and in some rare earth magnets....
...The ongoing saga involving the UK’s largest water company took a new turn yesterday after Thames Water said its shareholders were unwilling to stump up £500mn of fresh equity....
...Regarding your editorial “The cautionary tale of Thames Water” (FT View, April 1), there is an opportunity here for the government and the Conservative party to actually do something positive for the country...
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