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...If they withdraw, Thames Water could be forced to enter the government’s special administration regime, a form of temporary renationalisation....
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...A swift demise is better than a slow one. That would certainly be true for Thames Water....
...Ofwat will publish a draft ruling on water bill increases on June 12 and a final decision by the end of the year....
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...Thames Water’s WBS debt is a legacy of its 2006 buyout by Macquarie....
...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...
...In a statement of intent, the shareholders have hired restructuring advisers at Alvarez & Marsal to engage with the creditors of Thames Water’s ultimate parent, Kemble Water Holdings....
...Comfort was needed and — as Judith Flanders demonstrates in Rites of Passage, her arresting study of a sober topic — few novelists provided it with such well-judged hamminess as Dickens....
...Judith Beresford Nunney, Somerset, UK...
...a group of foreign investors of “blackmailing” regulators over the future of the country’s biggest water utility....
...Less clear is whether we recognise we will need to pay for greater water investment with higher bills. It is a myth that private water companies do not like to invest....
...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...
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...On Friday, one of the holding companies that owns Thames Water said interest payments that were due this week on a £400mn bond “have not been paid”, and issued a “formal notice of default”....
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