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17.07.25 - 12:42
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Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban (The Guardian)
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Lawrence Gosden's award comes amid high levels of corporate debt, serious sewage leaks and recent hosepipe banSouthern Water has nearly doubled its chief executive's annual pay package to £1.4m, despite financial difficulties and a government ban on it awarding bonuses.Lawrence Gosden was awarded £691,000 under a “two-year long-term incentive plan” (LTIP), on top of fixed pay of £687,000 in its last financial year, according to the company's annual report, published this week. Continue reading......
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17.07.25 - 11:54
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High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England′s great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot (The Guardian)
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In its refusal to renationalise water, it's clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the countryFor a rich and fairly stable country, we are staggeringly ill-prepared for climate shocks. We respond to predictable crises as if we had had no warning. Lessons from previous disasters go unlearned, mistakes are recycled, failures lodged so deeply that they come to define the system.This is not because of a deficiency in the national character, but because of a deficiency in the ideology of government: an elite belief, shared by scarcely any citizens, that public intervention should be used only when all other measures have failed. Until that point, our problems should be addressed by the private sector. As drought rolls across the country once again, England's privatised water system guarantees an irrational response.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistOn Tuesday 16 September, join George Monbiot, Mikaela Loach and other special guests discussing the forces driving clima...
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16.07.25 - 19:39
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"Maximum Generation Alert" Declared On America′s Largest Power Grid (ZeroHedge)
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"Maximum Generation Alert" Declared On America's Largest Power Grid
America's largest power grid has issued another "Maximum Generation Alert" and "Load Management Alert" as temperatures soar across the eastern half of the U.S. This comes amid a national trend of retiring fossil fuel power plants and replacing them with unreliable 'green' energy sources—creating a severe mismatch between baseload capacity and rising demand, and raising the risk of rolling blackouts in some areas.
PJM Interconnection, the operator of the largest U.S. power grid serving 65 million people across 13 states and D.C., issued a "Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert" for Wednesday, ordering all available power generation to run at full capacity to ensure power demand is met during peak hours amid tightening conditions.
PJM's grid alerts are procedural and inform neighboring grids of potential export curtailments, advising transmission/generation owners...
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16.07.25 - 10:12
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Southern Water issues hosepipe ban across Hampshire and Isle of Wight (The Guardian)
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Restriction begins on Monday and follows announcement that four areas of England officially in droughtSouthern Water has issued a hosepipe ban affecting 1 million people across Hampshire, joining Yorkshire, Thames and South East Water in issuing restrictions.The ban will come into force across large swathes of Hampshire and all of the Isle of Wight from 9am on Monday. Continue reading......
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16.07.25 - 02:42
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Is There Enough Water To Quench The Thirst Of AI Super Data Centers? (ZeroHedge)
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Is There Enough Water To Quench The Thirst Of AI Super Data Centers?
Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times,
While artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the way America does business, the number of data centers being built to meet its expanding computational demands has kicked off a construction boom.
Millions of gallons of water are needed for cooling these new data centers, a demand that has risen in lockstep with the expansion of AI support facilities.
The amount of water needed to power the data center building bonanza has triggered concerns about water supplies and groundwater safety in arid and water-stressed cities, where many of the complexes are being built.
Sergio Toro, CEO of market intelligence group Aterio, shared research with The Epoch Times that showed there are 1,827 active data centers in the United States, with another 1,726 announced and 419 currently under construction.
Hundreds of the new centers are being planned or built in areas suffering from water scarcity...
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