Dossier
Welsh Water
Coverage of Welsh Water in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Complicated and expensive’: Burnham is right about the risks of nationalisation | Nils Pratley
The article discusses Welsh Water, a former Thatcher-era privatization that became a not-for-profit public entity in 2001. It highlights that while Welsh Water has no shareholders and reinvests surpluses into services, its performance on bills and spills remains average despite high customer trust.
- Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim
Avara Foods and its subsidiary Freemans of Newent face a legal claim from 1,300 people alleging river pollution in the Wye and Usk. Their lawyers dismiss the claim as 'entirely inferential,' while the lawsuit also targets Welsh Water for environmental damage.