Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Summer 2022, when droughts across the UK provided a moment of reckoning for water companies, exposing the extent of their failings. Today (9 August 2023), it has been reported that the public could receive hundreds of millions in compensation as six water companies face a sewage law suit. So we return again to look at the many ways in which water companies have failed.
A particular injustice of climate change is that many of those who could have stemmed its extent or impacts gain financially from their failure to do so. That is writ large in the case of oil companies, which have logged record profits this year even as bills and temperatures soar. And so too, the UK is finding this month, can the inequity apply to water.
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