Water bills to rise by an average of 36%

Press release
The water regulator announced a steep rise in water bills in England and Wales over the next five years to pay for supply infrastructure upgrades and to reduce sewage discharges.
  Published:  19 Dec 2024    |      1 minute read

Responding to the news that the water regulator, Ofwat, has announced that water bills will rise by £31 a year on average over the next five years, Sienna Somers, senior nature campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said:

"Ofwat has caved to pressure from water companies to hike bills, leaving people to pick up the tab for decades of underinvestment in our crumbling water infrastructure.

"Dirty water companies shouldn't be able to rely on their customers to foot ever higher bills while they line the pockets of their shareholders and leave our rivers brimming with sewage.

“These extortionate price rises won't guarantee us cleaner water or solve the sewage crisis, they simply reward businesses for breaking the rules that protect people and nature. That's why now more than ever, we need the human right to a healthy environment enshrined in law, so that communities can hold water companies to account."

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