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...The school said: “Following extensive flooding in the region, the Thames Water sewers which serve the town of Eton flooded....
...United Utilities said it had reduced spills last year but the make-up of the sewer network in its region meant leakages were a quarter above the industry average....
...First comes the dirty work of installing sewers, water treatment and roads, and then building government offices — all of which is expected to cost Rs500bn over the next four to five years, APCRDA estimates...
...But London’s Victorian-era sewer system still pours at least 40bn litres of water and raw sewage into the Thames each year. Now there may be a solution: a £4.2bn, 15-mile-long “super sewer”....
...Water company Severn Trent is clearly willing to roll up its sleeves....
...New York time (in EST) 08:00 – Capital Link’s Greece investor day — the shipping roundtable does not feature George Economou, unfortunately. 09:00 – Literal sewer operator American Water Works gives 2018...
...Less than a third of China’s water is treated, compared with more than 90 per cent in developed markets, and its water resources are roughly a quarter of the global average a head, according to the World...
...The size and complexity of London’s planned super-sewer led the government to opt for third party investment to finance and build it, so that Thames Water’s ability to provide service to customers would...
...In Queens, all 62 acres of Willets Point – much of it now given over to ramshackle car repair shops – will be razed so sewers and housing can be brought to an area F Scott Fitzgerald compared to a “valley...
...Thames Water should be forced to issue new shares to help pay for the controversial £4bn super-sewer, which is planned to run underneath London, a former chief regulator has said....
...However, Mr Hughes remains unconvinced. “Thames Water and other highly indebted water companies may claim that capital allowances are the legitimate way in which they pay no taxes,” he says....
...Additional reporting by Chris Hughe...
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