A financial history of the UK Water Industry since privatization

A research project dedicated to gathering sufficient evidence to be able to answer, with specificity, two questions:

Were dividends taken from regulated water utilities reasonable?

Was investment in infrastructure sufficient?

The project comprises a database of financial statements of

regulated water utilities and their parent companies since privatisation.   

Draft interim findings will be posted for review and discussion as they are written.

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Lake Annecy, France - the cleanest urban lake in Europe, managed, together with its catchment area, water and wastewater services by SILA

a public body with a board of elected local representatives, established in 1957 after a decade long campaign by a private individual, Dr Paul Louis Servettaz