got to love the miasma of unaccountability that is the free market, huh 
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Unfortunately a brita won’t do much for bacteria. It’ll remove some heavy metals etc but UV would maybe be a better bet. I think that’ll set you back over a grand though.
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You could a lifestraw bottle/pitcher, they’re supposed to filter out 99.99% of bacteria. Don’t know how that stacks up against the britta
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Strong agree. This and Grenfell make me apoplectic with rage at the slightest thought.
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Fwiw (different water company but) I think they quite aggressively chlorinate the water as part of the treatment so the bacteria should be dealt with. And the Brita will sort the chlorine out
They really do think they shouldn’t be criticised for any action they take as MPs don’t they. Pathetic
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“people are getting typhoid to make us look bad”
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the 10 English and Welsh water and wastewater companies have paid £78bn in dividends since 1989, and accumulated £60bn in debt.
Sick system isn’t it
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It’s a fucking plutocracy.
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Thames Water has been put into ‘special measures’ (they have to report more information to Ofwat), and it looks like it s trebles all round for the shareholders of the water companies in general
We just need another £100 per person and we promise that this time we’ll spend it on infrastructure, rather than it going straight in our back pockets like every penny for the last 40 fucking years seems to have done.
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very well deserved.
presumably, part of his job as boss is to have some input into his own bonus, and by accepting it he’s already shown he hasn’t earned it 
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I don’t get it?
Just let it go bust. Buy it back for a £1 and nationalise it. Boo hoo for foreign pension funds but the rest of us will be okay
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the irony of an industry whose job it is to ensure parasite-free water-supply itself acting like a parasite under threat from its host is quite something
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Looks like someone is beginning to realise that he’s been used
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