Cash crisis deepens at water firm

Published date29 March 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The group - the UK's biggest water supplier with 16 million households across London and the South East - revealed that its investors had pulled a £500m funding lifeline which was due to be paid at the end of this month

Thames Water blamed

Ofwat, claiming that the regulator had made its business plan "uninvestible". It is understood that investors pulled the funding plan that was agreed last summer after Ofwat refused to bow to the water giant's demands for a 40% bill hike for customers, an easing of capital spending requirements, as well as leniency on penalties for failing to meet targets.

The debt-laden firm's chief executive, Chris

Weston, admitted that if no alternative funding could be found by the end of...

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