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21.10.26 - 08:18
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Three ideas for how to deal with Thames Water (The Guardian)
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The Guardian proposes emergency legislation, public control via the courts or stripping the utility company of its licenceAndy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken company. Here are some ideas the prime minister is being urged to consider.Emergency legislation Continue reading......
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20.10.26 - 13:00
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Thames Water creditors secure former Labour minister to drive rescue deal (The Guardian)
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Stricken UK water supplier lines up John Hutton as independent chair designate if takeover goes aheadThe group of Thames Water creditors pursuing a £10bn rescue deal for Britain's largest water supplier has lined up a former senior Labour minister to chair the company, as it tries to win over the government.The creditor consortium, called London & Valley Water, said on Tuesday that Lord John Hutton had been selected as independent chair designate of the Thames Water board, if the consortium's takeover of the utility goes ahead. Continue reading......
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20.10.26 - 05:06
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Yale develops fluidic memory chip using water flow, microfibers (Digitimes)
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A research team at Yale University in the US has found that flowing networks made of water or other fluids can store memory like computer chips, leading to the development of a fluidic memory chip with potential applications in soft robots. The team recently published its findings in Physical Review X (PRX)....
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19.10.26 - 21:30
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Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water (The Guardian)
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Exclusive: Utility seen as 'litmus test' of PM's promise to bring 'essentials of life' under public controlAndy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken company.In an early test of his promise to bring “the essentials of life” under public control, the prime minister is urging his advisers to go back to the drawing board and create a new list of policies for the utility. Continue reading......
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18.10.26 - 15:36
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Nine Days From The Dark: What Sixty Million People Learned About Water, Warmth, And Medicine During Spain′s Ten-Hour Blackout (ZeroHedge)
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Nine Days From The Dark: What Sixty Million People Learned About Water, Warmth, And Medicine During Spain's Ten-Hour Blackout
Authored by John Walter via Substack,
At 12:33 on the afternoon of 28 April 2025, mainland Spain and Portugal lost their electricity supply. Red Eléctrica de España, the Spanish transmission operator, logged the loss of about fifteen gigawatts of generation - close to sixty per cent of Spanish demand at that moment - within seconds. Supply was interrupted for roughly ten hours across most of the peninsula and longer in some districts, affecting an estimated sixty million people. Trains stopped between stations, payment terminals froze, mobile service thinned as tower batteries drained, and water pressure sagged in elevated neighbourhoods.
The final report from ENTSO-E, the European network of transmission operators, published on 20 March 2026, attributed the event to a combination of technical factors and successive generation disconnections rather than to a single f...
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17.10.26 - 11:12
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Stinky business: south London bike shop hit by ′unbearable′ stench from Thames Water sewer (The Guardian)
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Owner and mechanics fear for their health and future of the Herne Hill shop with no date for fixing problemThe leafy south London neighbourhood of Herne Hill is a haven for cyclists who can often be seen lapping the local parks and refuelling at the many cafes that line the suburban streets. But there is something foul in the air of this corner of the capital – and for once it's not the traffic fumes hitting bicycle riders.A toxic stench thought to be caused by untreated sewage stuck in Thames Water drains has been emanating from the subterranean depths for months, most likely caused by the summer's lack of rain. Continue reading......
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15.10.26 - 20:18
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The water torture goes on at Thames. Sector-wide reform isn′t moving much faster | Nils Pratley (The Guardian)
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If 'public control' bit is delaying overhaul, that needs to be nailed down sharpish or continued uncertainty could be costlyIt is strange now to recall that Thames Water had a prominent slot on what was known as “Sue's shit list” – the internal Labour dossier, compiled by Keir Starmer's first chief of staff, Sue Gray, of potential crises that could erupt at short notice and force the incoming administration to make some big decisions quickly.That was July 2024. Here we are – more than two years later – and the Thames script has barely advanced. We're still waiting to see if the financial crisis at the over-indebted, under-performing water company will be resolved by a creditor-led recapitalisation, special administration or something else. Continue reading......
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15.10.26 - 18:30
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Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027 (The Guardian)
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Water company tells creditors it will not survive long enough to agree refinancing deal without more moneyThames Water has asked its creditors for another £2.4bn as the embattled water company comes close to running out of cash.The UK's largest water company said on Thursday it needed another short-term cash injection because it would be unable to reach a longer-term deal to sort out its giant debt pile before running out of cash by “the end of 2026 or the start of 2027”. Continue reading......
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