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...All 16 companies have been criticised for service failures, including tipping unknown quantities of sewage into waterways, high leakage rates or water outages....
...Thames Water has lobbied regulators to let it increase bills by 40 per cent by 2030....
...Storytelling has been really important in British culture and those animals have become symbols of the unknown....
...At the same time, the industry notched up £60bn in debt while a failure to invest sufficiently in infrastructure has led to a fifth of treated water being lost in leakage as well as unknown quantities of...
...It would not be pushed around “by two unknown guys”, said one person close to the firm....
...Public pressure for renationalisation of water has been mounting after unknown quantities of sewage poured into rivers and coastal waters, risking public health and closing beaches this summer....
...“I really do like to think like a vegetable,” she says, in an interview at UKRI’s offices overlooking the Thames in central London....
...Executive pay has become a lightning rod for public anger against the water monopolies, which are accused of letting unknown quantities of raw sewage pour into rivers and coastal waters....
...As an example he points to Thames Water’s desalination plant, which cost about £200mn, and has barely been used — though Thames Water says it was only designed for use in drought conditions....
...The companies are accused of massive water leakage and pollution failures, including tipping unknown quantities of storm water and sewage into coastal waters and rivers....
...Last week the chief executives of Yorkshire Water, Thames Water and South West Water declined their bonuses in an acknowledgment of the public anger over sewage pollution....
...There is the fear and anxiety we associate with the unknown, but also anticipation and potential. Words by Christian Marclay....
...But the 180-degree panorama back up the Thames – from the Isle of Dogs towards the City and St Paul’s, with the Olympic Park at Stratford off to the east and Greenwich and the Thames Barrier visible in the...
...The white clapboard Reverend Swift House, built in 1795, is listed in Roxbury’s historical register and has the sort of casual ramble and cosy dimensions that are unknown to the modern-day McMansion....
...One exception is Thames Water, which has increased expenditure, although not by enough to stop leaks and burst pipes....
...In the end, they caught him “chrome-handed” on the side of a bridge, with the Thames rolling underneath....
...Despite the surreal nature of the situation, watching Fogle project genuine emotion to an absent, unknown fan, I can’t help but feel charmed....
...As he applies the acid to the sheet it begins to melt away, revealing first the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, then the river Thames and the City itself....
...That secretive wine bar, unknown to FT colleagues, near St Paul’s?...
...They were a sign of (an unknown word for the day) “gentrification” and came in tandem with converted lofts and builders’ skips in the street....
...Although Ofwat has set new targets for water companies to reduce leakage by 16 per cent between 2020 and 2025, the MPs said meeting the targets would rely on “unknown and untested” approaches....
...Many were also members of the secretive “Advisory Board,” a hitherto unknown group of elite donors who enjoy frequent and direct access to the most powerful people in government....
...Moreover, an unknown number of the 1m EEA citizens allocated “pre-settled status” under the post-Brexit EU settlement scheme are also barred from receiving any public money if they cannot prove they are...
...Packed with images known and unknown, this account of her life and art, based on interviews, reads like a final work in her own voice — funny, sympathetic, original....
...Enthusiasm for those is not unknown on the right of the Conservatives or the left of the Labour party respectively....
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