Greens call for water companies to be taken into public hands as Environment secretary visits polluted Windemere 10 March 2025 / 10 March 2025 by Green Party Green Party Co-Leader Adrian Ramsay MP has poured cold water on today’s visit by Environment Secretary Steve Reed to Lake Windemere and the announcement that United Utilities will invest £200m into upgrading 10 wastewater treatment works at Windermere [1]. He said: “The government is today trumpeting its “Things Can Only Get Cleaner” tour. But the […] Read more » Adrian Ramsay Green Party pollution Public ownership Sewage Water companies
Why won’t Labour even consider putting water companies back into public hands ask Greens 23 October 2024 by Green Party Responding to the news (BBC) that a new independent commission will soon launch the largest review of the water industry since privatisation in the 1980s, Green Party Co-Leader, Carla Denyer said, “Water is a basic human need. It should be in public hands run for people, not profit. I don’t know why Labour won’t even […] Read more » Carla Denyer Green Party OFWAT Public ownership Sewage Water companies