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The crisis facing the UK water industry

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The Toxic Political Debate Around the Water Industry

Miranda Robert says we paid for services and they haven't been delivered. We've got leaking pipes and the prospect of drought, this is really an outrage so to sort of blame people for complaining just doesn't seem fair she adds. Jill O'Brien: Britain is the only country to privatize its water system. Other countries have sometimes given control to private companies on long-term contracts or done quasi-subarms links bodies but no one has wholesale given all the water infrastructure to private companies.

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