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Britain’s Largest Water Company Fined Record Amount for Sewage Issues and Dividends

    Britain's biggest water firm hit with record fine over sewage and dividends
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    LONDON – On Wednesday, the largest water company in Britain was fined nearly 123 million pounds ($166 million) for discharging sewage into rivers and streams while distributing dividends to its shareholders.

    The industry regulator, Ofwat, declared that Thames Water is required to pay 104.5 million pounds for not adequately protecting the environment, and an additional 18.2 million pounds for violating rules concerning dividend distributions. This marks the largest penalty ever imposed by the water regulator.

    According to Ofwat, Thames Water, which supplies water and sewage services to 16 million residents in London and its surrounding areas, failed in “constructing, maintaining, and operating suitable infrastructure to fulfill its duties” and also distributed “unwarranted dividends.”

    The U.K. government said that the fines “will be paid by the company and its investors, and not by customers.”

    Thames Water is at the center of nationwide anger over sewage spills that have fouled lakes, rivers and beaches at a time when water and sewage companies are hiking bills to modernize aging systems and cope with the demands of climate change and population growth.

    The cash-strapped company has teetered on the edge of insolvency under about 19 billion pounds in debt. It won court approval in March for 3 billion pounds in emergency funding to keep it from falling into government administration.

    It is currently trying to push through a sale to U.S. investment firm KKR.

    Consumers and politicians have criticized the company, arguing that Thames Water created its own problems by paying overly generous dividends to investors and high salaries to executives while failing to invest in pipelines, pumps and reservoirs. Company executives say that the fault lies with regulators, which kept bills too low for too long, starving the company of vital cash to fund improvements.

    “We take our responsibility towards the environment very seriously and note that Ofwat acknowledges we have already made progress to address issues raised in the investigation relating to storm overflows,” Thames Water said in a statement.

    “The dividends were declared following a consideration of the company’s legal and regulatory obligations. Our lenders continue to support our liquidity position and our equity raise process continues.”

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