Is anyone else seeing a huge increase in Thames Water bill?

GingerTim

You might want to sit down before reading this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/18/thames-water-green-light-hike-bills-one-third-by-2030-ofwat

GibbsRule_No3.

I pay £240 a year to Thames, so I hope my bill will not be rising by £31 a year for the next 5 years.

GingerTim

Glad I'm in an Affinity Water area.

Somebody

GingerTim said:

Glad I'm in an Affinity Water area.

Why do you say that?  Is Affinity that much better than Thames Water?  

I looked at my Affinity Water bills from 2022 to December 2024; in that time:

- Clean water m3 Rate Charge went from £1.0502 to £1.2668, a 20.62% increase;
- 6 months clean water fixed charge £14.46 to  £15.18, +4.98%;
- Wastewater m3 Rate Charge £0.9051 to £1.1537 , +27.47%;
- 6 mths waste water fixed charge £31.79 to £41.89, +31.77%

So looks like there's more price hikes to come.  Standing charges are currently £114.14 p.a (31.27p a day) before a drop is used.

GingerTim

Somebody said:

GingerTim said:

Glad I'm in an Affinity Water area.

Why do you say that?  Is Affinity that much better than Thames Water?  

I looked at my Affinity Water bills from 2022 to December 2024; in that time:

- Clean water m3 Rate Charge went from £1.0502 to £1.2668, a 20.62% increase;
- 6 months clean water fixed charge £14.46 to  £15.18, +4.98%;
- Wastewater m3 Rate Charge £0.9051 to £1.1537 , +27.47%;
- 6 mths waste water fixed charge £31.79 to £41.89, +31.77%

So looks like there's more price hikes to come.  Standing charges are currently £114.14 p.a (31.27p a day) before a drop is used.

Because by all accounts the increase faced by Affinity water billpayers will be considerably less than almost every other company.

I can't really complain, anyway, my annual bill for fixed charge and usage always comes in at about £160 to £180, and they've just reduced my monthly direct debit.

jimjames

PegasusPJ said:

I  really don't understand why water is private in this country (and almost nowhere else), it has no competition possible and is literally an essential! 

It's not really true to say it's not private anywhere else. Also private in France and Australia for 2 examples and companies from both have bought UK water assets