http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/ SIGN BELOW IF WANT TO REGISTER YOUR DISGUST AT THAMES WATER FOR RISING PRICES, POOR SERVICE, LACK OF INVESTMENT AND PANDERING TO ITS SHAREHOLDERS! SIGN BELOW IF YOU WANT THAMES WATER TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON FIXING LEAKS WITHOUT INCREASING OUR BILLS! THIS PETITION WILL BE SENT TO THAMES WATER, THE GOVERNMENT AND OFWAT, THE WATER REGULATOR. Hosepipe Ban On Monday, 3 April 2006, Thames Water introduced a hose-pipe ban on its 5 million household customers. The ban will affect an estimated 8 million people. Thames Water has stated that the ban is necessary to preserve scarce water resources through what is expected to be a dry summer. If the region does not enjoy more rainfall, Thames Water may introduce further emergency measures, which may eventually culminate in all domestic water supplies being cut off, forcing people to obtain their water from standpipes in the street. Millions of litres leaked every day However, it is estimated that a staggering 914 million litres is leaked every single day from water mains under the control of Thames Water. That is enough water to fill 11.4 million baths every single day or, in other words, 1½ baths for every Thames Water customer. If these leaks were fixed – if even half were fixed! – would we need a hosepipe ban? Would we live under the threat of supplies being cut off? Thames Water has blamed the leaks on an ageing network of water mains and claims that it is spending £500,000 per day to fix the leaks. THIS IS CLEARLY NOT ENOUGH! Hundreds of millions in dividends for shareholders Thames Water may not direct enough money to fix leaks, but it has found a staggering £141.2 million to pay in dividends to its corporate shareholders for the financial year ended 31 March 2005. In 2003/4, it was £136.1m. In fact, here’s a list of Thames Water’s dividends obtained from its own Annual Reports from 1997: 1997 £136.6 million 1998 £643.4 million 1999 £891 million 2000 £117.2 million 2001 £122.5 million 2002 £126.6 million 2003 £136.1 million 2004 £141.2 million Price rises The average water bill for Thames Water for the same period from 1997 to 2005 has risen from £201 to £246, a huge 22.4%. In 2005, Thames Water announced that in the next 5 years, average prices would rise by a further 24%. If it were not enough that their prices rose in real terms by an enormous 44% from 1989 (when privatisation happened) to 1999, they now plan on hitting the customers for a further staggering price rise. BUT WHERE ARE THE IMPROVEMENTS? WHY ARE WE FACING A HOSEPIPE BAN? Millions in retained profits The customers must pay more even though Thames Water loses a third of all of its water in leaks every day and even though Thames Water announced in its most recent Annual Report that it currently has £57.3 million in retained profits. WHY ISN’T THIS MONEY SPENT ON FIXING LEAKS? WE ASK AGAIN - WHY ARE WE FACING A HOSEPIPE BAN? What you can do • Please sign this petition • Write to your local MP • Write to OFWAT • Complain to Thames Water Thank you for your time. Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:1:47 CDT en-us 3 http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig4405986 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig4288554 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig3850447 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Disgraceful service http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig3134361 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig3014894 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST gooday. I think it is stupid to go on wasting water. we flush drinking water down the toilet. WE should be building holding tanks in new buildings to collect water to flush toilets and wash with. drinking water which has to be processed should be conserved only for drinking. older houses factories should be incouraged to build holding tanks like in Australia. but this is not good for water companies because we would use less of there water thus hurting their proffits. Thay would rather we use more water increasing their profets. If we incourage the conservation of fresh drinking water this would help with flooding. being diverted into thousands of holding tanks instead of pouring into the flood dranige system. The idea of flooding large areas to build a mew res in oxfordshire is an criminal act and should be stoped. if this money was put into incouraging homeowners and big buisnesses to build holding tanks for general water usage you would not have hose pipe bans or flooding. as I have said this is not an option if you are a share holder as this does not increase water usage but reduce it and that is the key we can not keep flooding good usable land. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2960221 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2956180 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Thames Water has installed a water meter outside of my property without properly restoring the public road pavement in a conservation area. They were also asking me to pay GBP 725 per annum for water on a terraced house in central London, with charges based on a supposed property value rather than on average water usage. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2541791 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST because they are making a lot of profit and missing all their targets in not fixing enough leaks to stop them wasting the water which they then charge us higher prices on account of TW losing all that water. They expect me to pay full price for not being able to use as much water as they keep hiking prices up. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2541309 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2521907 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2478619 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2391234 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2390987 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Thames Water are just a bunch of crooks. www.thames-water.co.uk has an interesting take on things :) http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2390887 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2351095 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Because the long-term future of a precious resource is in the hands of people who only think of immediate profit and who are willing to let that resource dwindle in order to raise prices. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2348048 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I think its an absolute disgrace that we should be made to pay for water only to be told we cannot us it. I think some of the 6million salary paid to the chief executive should be used to fixing all the leaking pipes around London.How can they continue to be allowed to make huge profits when they are not even making their targets!!!!!!! It makes me very cross!!!!!! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2347993 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2294883 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST They have just anounced a drought order the water leaks are a scandal ,but the point, you are all missing is the less water you use the more profits for them its time to march to their offices and disrupt there german scam.now lets organise this now. The masses will always win http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2292420 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Water should belong to the commons, not corporations who only care about profits. Renationalise water, fix the leaks, make sure water is affordable and accessible to all. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thames-water-protest/#sig2214451 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST This summer's water crisis demonstrates beyond doubt that Thames Water lack either the will or the basic competence to manage our most precious resource. As a private monopoly they are under no pressure to do anything unless OFWAT acts.