Thames Water boss awarded large bonus ...

............presumably for not allowing any sewage to flow during the Queens Pageant ???



look here: http://tiny.cc/t1lqfw

well done the thames boss . nearly destroyed ALLthe rivers this year....watch this space!!

Spot on lads, £400k bonus, disgraceful

TW annual report, lots of reading to do...

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xbcr/corp/twul-financial-results-period-ended-31-march-2012.pdf

£60k in funding to to Thames21

As usual, big business fleecing the resources of utility companies and the like, while millions are cast on the scrap heap of joblessness...


Richard

268 pollution incidents, 75 more than last year. 20 pollution incidents categorised as level 1 or 2 by the EA.
2 fatal accidents.
Meanwhile Baggs bags bigger bonus.

and...

Leakage reduced 28 Mld to 637 Mld compared to last year and beat the target set by the Water Services Regulatory Authority (“Ofwat”) for the year by 36 Mld.

637 million litres a day lost, thats the same as they abstract from Walton and Sunbury every day

Here is a story for you.

Thames Water sent me an invite for the rowing finals at the Olympics, nice thought.... thanks but no thanks

Vince Cable is at the Business Select Committee answering questions on curbing high pay - guess who the first person brought up was! He didn't seem very willing to defend him when asked about the bonus by MPs.

Always a good read these: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120702/text/120702w0003.htm

Of note is

Robert Halfon: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent estimate
2 July 2012 : Column 458W

she has made of the volume of water leaking from pipes in each region in each of the last five years. [114118]

Richard Benyon: Ofwat, the economic regulator of water and sewerage companies in England and Wales has collected the following information on the volume of water leaked from pipes in each water company area:

1 megalitre (M/l) = 1 million litre




Water Supply: Complaints

Mr Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in how many and what proportion of consumer complaints the Independent Consumer Council for water declined to intervene in the latest period for which figures are available; and for what reasons in each such case. [114284]

Richard Benyon [holding answer 28 June 2012]: In 2011-12, the Consumer Council for Water (CCWater) received a total of 11,338 complaints about water companies, and dealt with 11,323 (99.87%) of them. Fifteen of those cases (0.13%) fell entirely outside of CCWater's statutory powers to help resolve complaints. The reasons for this were:

five complaints concerned legal issues;

four were about damage claims; and

six related to non-water industry bodies.

In those cases where CCWater was unable to help, staff gave advice to the customer on alternative avenues of assistance.

Compare the 2006 figures with present, although the total figure is bad Thames Water are one of the few companies to have made reductions in their leakage rates, down by 16%, whilst, eg. Veolia Water Central has increased by 25%, Yorkshire Water increased by 10% over the same period.