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  • Mark Kleinman: South East Water’s excuses have run dry

    Business

    Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column South East Water’s excuses have run dry How the water industry could do with the raising of a Mervyn King eyebrow. While governor of the Bank of England in 2012, Lord King defenestrated Bob Diamond as [...]

    Mark Kleinman is Sky News' City Editor and writes a column for City AM
  • Nationalising water would turn off the investment taps

    Opinion

    Government has neither the money nor the capacity to run our water industry and nationalisation would be the surest way to stop investment in it. Only the private sector has deep enough pockets to fund that level of investment, says Natascha Engel People across Kent and Sussex have had to use their neighbour’s toilets and [...]

    Macquarie is to invest £1.2bn into Southern Water in a move that could prevent a breach of its regulatory license.
  • Pennon mega-deal for Sutton and East Surrey Water facing competition probe

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    Pennon paid £89m in equity but the total enterprise deal was worth £380m

    England’s water system made a splash again this week, hitting the headlines as the government announced their latest move to - as they put it - clean up the industry.

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