Water bills in England and Wales are set to rise - but the changes are different depending on where you live 💧
Household water bills in England and Wales are poised to increase by an average of £19 per year over the next five years. That figure is a third less than the increase requested by water companies, according to draft proposals from Ofwat. The regulator stated that water companies had proposed increases averaging £144 over five years.
The proposed bill increases come amid public fury around firms’ rampant polluting of waterways with sewage spills as they continue to hand dividends to shareholders, and bonuses to executives – something which the new Labour government has pledged to clamp down on. Sewage spills into England’s rivers and seas more than doubled in 2023. According to the Environment Agency, there were 3.6 million hours of spills last year – equal to about 400 years – compared with 1.75 million hours in 2022.
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