💯"The key to the issue of hosepipe bans being needed is surely the privatisation of the water companies. They extract huge sums in dividends for their owners – largely investment funds not based in the UK – while failing to live up to their responsibility to maintain the water supply network."
Blame privatised water firms for hosepipe bans | LetttersLetters: strongGillian Metheringham/strong, strongDr Gillian Austen/strong and others respond to articles about water shortages in the UK and the high and rising pay of water industry bosseswww.theguardian.com