Thames Water handy again £120m to consumers

Symbol: Thames Water expects to hit its leak objectives by way of 2020. %: Thames Water

A watchdog says Thames Water consumers are to proportion £120m on account of the corporate's proceeding failure to get a grip on leaks.

Ofwat stated the corporate had agreed to pay off £65m on most sensible of £55m already incurred for lacking commitments it had made to consumers to mend pipes.

The regulator stated it will imply each and every Thames buyer getting a complete rebate of roughly £15 over the following two years.

Its investigation discovered that Thames breached two felony duties thru deficient leakage control.

The record concluded: "Thames Water's Board and control didn't pay sufficient consideration to decreasing leakage and that the corporate underestimated the importance of its underperformance on leakage when assuring Ofwat that it was once assembly its statutory duties, one in every of which is to ship an effective and financial carrier."

Ofwat stated the corporate had now made new commitments on tackling leakage and would put up its efficiency each and every month.

Its leader government, Rachel Fletcher, stated: "Thames Water failed its consumers in tackling leakage and the measures we've introduced these days illustrate the dimensions of the corporate's shortcomings and the way critically we take them.

"Prime leakage creates pointless pressure at the setting, extra prices for patrons and larger chance of water shortages."

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She added: "Consumers don't need to see their water corporate allowing them to down like this, however we are hoping the rebate they're going to now obtain is going a way against compensating them for his or her water corporate's failure to are living as much as its commitments to chop leakage."

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August 29, 2018