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    South East Water könnte nach Ausfällen in Kent und Sussex die Betriebslizenz verlieren | Wasserindustrie


    South East Water könnte nach Ausfällen in Kent und Sussex die Betriebslizenz verlieren | Wasserindustrie

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/14/south-east-water-operating-licence-ofwat-review-outages-kent-sussex

    Von rugbyj

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    1. The-Furry-Circle on

      We’ve lost ours for the second time in as many months.

      Collecting rainwater for hours to manually flush away a shit is not the direction I saw my life heading in, but here we are.

    2. Correct-Macaroon949 on

      – so we can nationalise them, for free.
      Claim money back from then for running down infrastructure.

    3. xhable on

      Can we lose southern water while we’re at it. Replace them with something that doesn’t pour human shit into every river and into the sea perhaps?

    4. BestButtons on

      > The environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, has called for the regulator to review the company’s operating licence. If it were to lose it, the company would fall into a special administration regime **until a new buyer was found**.

      How about the government being the new buyer? Pretty please.

      > If the regulator, Ofwat, decides the company has breached its licence but decides not to revoke it, penalties include a fine of 10% of the company’s annual turnover. Ofwat in 2024 decided Thames Water was in breach of its licence but decided to avoid forcing it into special measures and instead insisted on a turnaround plan.

      Do I remember correctly that they told OFWAT off for this kind of practice?

    5. LFC_Egg on

      Such a joke that this is allowed to happen. Government should take it all over and make sure that it all works. We’re up to out eyeballs in debt but the government refuses to hold on to anything that will make them money.

    6. CensorTheologiae on

      Well, Kent and Sussex could have had water but they wanted Boris Johnson instead.

    7. jenny_905 on

      A real government would have seized every one of those awful private water companies a long time ago.

      They are a total scam. They’re not run like real companies so the usual rules need not apply. Seize them and parade the greedy execs through the streets.

    8. Original_Bad_3416 on

      The whole crisis has been a mess. I’m fairly sure that some part of South East Water customers have been without water at least once in the last 8 weeks.

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