£ 500 milioni L’impianto di desalinizzazione dell’acqua del Tamigi ha fornito solo sette giorni di acqua in 15 anni
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/26/500m-thames-water-desalination-plant-has-provided-just-seven-days-water-over-15-years?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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£500m, how much of that was on project managers and other non-entities.
God we can’t build or run jack shit in this country without getting taken to the cleaners.
Is this not a case of better to have and not need.
Like the facility will come in handy at some point and it’s probably the cheapest we will ever build a facility like that
Sounds like it’s a final reserve capability of providing water during droughts. So it’s doing exactly what it should be doing and not running when cheaper sources are available.
All countries should have desalination facilities – not having to use them is a good thing
What can you expect with Thames Water having owned and managed by chiselers for decades.
Matching pissup with brewery !!!!
“Bomb shelter used 4 years in a hundred” is how this title reads. When did British journalism become so shite?
In case anyone doesn’t understand my message: like a bomb shelter, this piece of kit is to be used in a specific set of circumstances. We only needed it 7 days in 15 years, but we still fking needed it.
Built for 270 million, then with 200 million of costs being interest payments on debt. Debts paid to investors, who control the board. “Should we pay this off, or keep paying ourselves hundreds of millions of pounds?” Tough choice let me think on it.
It’s provided 200million pounds in debt interest to Thames Water investors. So it has more than served its purpose. Providing water is purely incidental.
Honestly, all this chatter about water and people. It’s like no one even cares about the share and bond holders who are the real heros here.
That’s a good thing, isn’t it?
I’m all for hating Thames Water, but for this? I can’t see why. We should have back up systems, but not be using desalination unless we need said back ups
£500 million. Did they pay for that themselves, or, let me guess without looking, did the tax payer pay for that for them?
£3m in operating costs. Fraud hide way to take money away from tax payers.
I work at Thames water while the company is right fucked in some ways this isn’t one of them.
The desalination plant is an emergency reserve It’s worthwhile if there is a water shortage. It’s kind of a pain to get the plant operation and here in the labs we know when they are thinking about it because we get specific samples from the plant that are basically seawater and can mess up our testing instruments.
With climate change a real risk we are prone to droughts this is a plan for that contingency while I agree there are other infrastructure projects that could be built aswell. This wasn’t a bad call.
I thought the private sector was good at delivery and cost effectiveness?
Worth reminding
They tried to build it for decades but got blocked by labour mayor ken Livingstone, who said they needed to invest in their leaks instead. Boris came in and gave permission and here we are.