Ugh Thames Water have just dropped our new bill, no warning, no context just a 158% increase per month.
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Anglian Water’s slogan is ‘Love every drop…’ which is particularly galling when they’ve upped our bills by 33% and yet on even a short drive around here you’ll see countless huge leaks which have been unattended for weeks and sometimes months. Other than giving shareholders a bonus, you do have to wonder where the money is going.
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Same place as those leaks…
Down the drain!
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How much has your council tax gone up, given water is bundled in?
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I’m also in Scotland and my payment has gone from 178 to 193 quid.
Not sure what mine is, I know it’s £89 all next 12 months but a refund owed from last year £120 or so, and single occupancy applied.
Water I’ve no idea, but I paid £176 January and will pay the same in July. My choice to pay 6 monthly, one less bill to worry about every month.
Should throw a water read in tbh.
NIMBY ALERT!!
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£175 to £183 for our Council Tax, over 12 months.
I’m certainly not going to lose any sleep over that increase. I was expecting more.
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Oh, I’ve not looked at mine yet 
I haven’t had one for water yet, but I did get yet another letter about their insurance/protection.
Save yourself a stamp and take it off my water bill.
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20% increase for my water bill this coming year. Pretty steep, though not as mad as some on here.
So it turns out they do, but clearly somewhere along the line some system is not up to scratch and can’t immediately failover to an alternative feed allowing for uninterrupted power.
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Was reading about this earlier. Seems Heathrow and the National Grid are both blaming each other, but that it likely comes down to poor systems and management at Heathrow.
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It’s probably like the nonsense I see with diverse fibre lines, they leave a building on opposite sides to tick the diverse redundant links box, but then they are in the same duct 500m away.
Even the better ones often end up in the same ducts for the last miles leading up to the data centre.
It’s probably a similar story with electricity.
On my water increase. I asked for a water meter reading from the concierge and… I realised that the water meter reading I got in March 2024 is exactly the same as the one I just got!
No idea how that’s happened or what is going to happen now… 
Is it the correct meter, could he have mistaken you for an empty flat? Have these readings been submitted?
It’s the right meter, the meter number is on the front.
The actual meter reading is also weird. Thames Water say to ignore anything after the comma/dot. That would mean my meter reading is just 2.
Definitely something odd.
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Privatising an industry of monopolies. Who thought that was a good idea?
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