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Debt, sewage and dividends: the rising tide of Thames Water’s troubles
Government officials who tour Coppermills, a vast Thames Water treatment works in north-east London, are left under no illusions about the dire condition of Britain’s infrastructure. “It’s in a shocking state,” said one official who has visited the 1960s …