Water watchdog OfWat gets punchy as patience with industry pours away
OfWat has responded to Michael's Gove firey rhetoric, but Jeremy Corbyn and Labour will deserve much of the credit if this results in a less awful industry
Water companies: You have a regulator after all.
OfWat, which had given every impression of being the Office for Doing Not Very Much, has outlined a packages of measures it wants to take to bring the embattled sector “back in balance”.
They are outlined in a letter to Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who seems to have recognised that beating up on the water industry might help him to create a counter narrative to the one that portrays him as a poisonous backstabbing brexiteer.
Read more Ofwat should be investigated like water companies over supply failings UK water firms criticised as homes left without water for fourth day Privatisation hasn’t improved the supply of our water Some of OfWat’s missive amounts to wagging its finger at the industry and telling it to do what it should have been doing for years now. In ..