The English water companies have told the govt that to fix the infrastructure problems they will have to increase prices to customers.
Just worth remembering that Scottish Water – which is publicly owned – has invested nearly 35 per cent more per household in infrastructure since 2002 than the privatised English firms, charging 14 per cent less and not paying out dividends.
Conclusion ….Nationalised water works better!
@MarkHoltom Wait, profit motives make services worse? Who could have predicted that. (Only anyone who pays any attention at all)
@SphereSystem2 @MarkHoltom I think that depends on WHO profits - someone caring about the product and its quality, who actually works with it and its clients on a base level - or someone so far removed that they might not even know what the product even is.
@nachtet @MarkHoltom Profit gets in the way of fair pay and recompense for those people, for the workers keeping a service running or good made.