Taking Thames Water into temporary public ownership would inevitably fuel calls from critics of the privatised water industry to renationalise all of the country's major water companies. Thames Water is owned by a consortium of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, many of which are understood...
Thames Water is owned by a group of private equity, pension and infrastructure funds, with shareholders including Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System and Universities Superannuation Scheme. The UK’s water supply was privatised in 1989. At the time, most firms had very little debt, but th...
Studies show that the state-owned water companies in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are significantly less efficient than their peers in England and Wales while state-owned Scottish Water's efficiency only improved when in 2001 the Scottish government, then run by Labour, altered regu...
Thames Water is considering to launch a deal in the sterling inflation-linked market before the end of 2006 according to Peter Matza, senior manager of group treasury at RWE. Wind, the Italian telecommunication company which was owned by the Weather consortium, issued a €555 million deal....
From Oxford to the estuary, the Thames drops by 55 metres (180 ft). Running through some of the drier parts of mainland Britain and heavily abstracted for drinking water, the Thames' discharge is low considering its length and breadth: the Severn has a discharge almost twice as large on ...
‘Wren by River’ – a tour on Uber Boat By Clippers Thames featuring an introduction to Wren’s London legacy from the perspective of the river (be quick, this takes place on 1st September), and art installations including the Saltley Geyser, a 30 metre high plume of water in the Royal...
On June 4, 1984, the inaugural meeting was held at the Quarter Deck Club attached to John Crevald's Boatyardat Windsor. The first boat to join the TVBC was 'Wise Folly', owned by Robin Newlands, a 28ft 6in Budden and Hart-built gentleman's launch of 1915, which originally belonged...
Among the others sounded out by Rothschild are Brookfield, the Canadian investment giant, and Global Infrastructure Partners, which is now owned by BlackRock. More on Thames Water Thames Water fined £18m by Ofwat for breaking shareholder payment rules ...
The company, which is now owned by 11 pension and sovereign wealth funds including the Universities Superannuation Scheme, promised last week to close its Cayman Islands subsidiaries - although this may take up to two years. There has also been a boardroom shake-up in which nearly two-thirds ...
There is also widespread anger oversewage pollution. According to data from the Environment Agency this week, 47 overflows owned by Thames Water discharged raw sewage more than 100 times last year. The annual varsity boat race will take place this weekenddespite warningsover high levels of “dang...