{"id":817798,"date":"2026-07-23T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:12:08","slug":"macquarie-owned-southern-water-faces-uk-pollution-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817798\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie-owned Southern Water faces UK pollution charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London | A Macquarie-owned water company in the United Kingdom is facing hefty fines after the regional utility\u2019s former boss and three other former senior executives were charged over allegedly manipulating water quality tests.<\/p>\n<p>The conspiracy to defraud charges predate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/infrastructure\/macquarie-to-inject-500m-more-into-uk-s-southern-water-20251231-p5nqt0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macquarie\u2019s ownership of Southern Water<\/a> but come amid an intense political debate in Britain, with newly appointed Prime Minister Andy Burnham vowing to bring water companies under greater \u201cpublic control\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London | A Macquarie-owned water company in the United Kingdom is facing hefty fines after the regional utility\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-817798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}