The government is preparing to take Thames Water, the UK’s largest water utility, into temporary public ownership, paving the way for a potential sale to a major Chinese infrastructure company.
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A recent report by the thinktank Common Wealth has argued that bringing England’s water companies into public ownership could cost the government close to nothing. Experts propose using a process
