{"id":24615,"date":"2025-07-20T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24615\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:27:09","slug":"environment-secretary-pledges-water-revolution-with-plans-to-cut-pollution-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24615\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment secretary pledges ‘water revolution’ with plans to cut pollution by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why aren’t water companies being nationalised in England?published at 10:12 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

10:12 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Esme Stallard
Climate and science reporter<\/p>\n

On Monday we’re expected to hear from the outcome of the Water Commission – the independent review of the water industry set up by the government to come up with solutions to improve the financial and environmental performance of the sector.<\/p>\n

But before the chair, Sir Jon Cunliffe even started his review, the government said he could not look at or recommend nationalisation as a potential model.<\/p>\n

Steve Reed has said previously, and this morning, that it would be “too expensive” and “too complex”.<\/p>\n

Despite this, as part of his work Sir Jon has been looking at alternative models to privatisation, including mixed public-private models – which are common in Europe.<\/p>\n

This is something that leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, said he would look to implement should his party be running government. <\/p>\n

But in his preliminary findings published last month, Sir Jon said it wasn’t clear that any particular model equated to better outcomes.<\/p>\n

“The Commission\u2019s Call for Evidence set out preliminary analysis that suggested no clear, consistent causal link between ownership models and water company performance on a range of metrics and called, specifically, for more evidence on this issue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why aren’t water companies being nationalised in England?published at 10:12 British Summer Time 10:12 BST Esme StallardClimate and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-24615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}