Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh Every few months, there are more shocking headlines about the behaviour of England’s water companies. The latest are about the ever-increasing pay of the chief executives and chief financial officers, which rose to a total of £25.3m across 14 companies over the past year. Meanwhile, people living in England struggle with rising water bills and untreated sewage being discharged ( often illegally ) on to beaches and in to lakes, and companies such as Thames Water are on the brink of insolvency and want government backing. It’s not surprising that we’re in this situation: England’s water companies have long been accused of putting the interests of shareholders above those of customers . From their perspective, the privatisation of water has been an astounding suc
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
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