Ofwat is assessing whether an undisclosed payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water’s CEO from the firm’s off-shore parent ...

The Government called it the biggest overhaul of the water sector since privatisation but campaigners criticised the plans ...

Readers overwhelmingly support scrapping the regulator, but remain deeply divided over whether fixing the water industry ...

Ofwat scrapped in huge shake up of 'broken' water industry regulation - Decision from Environment Secretary Steve Reed follows publication of major report from the Government appointed Independent Wat ...

The UK government should create a new water industry regulator, combining Ofwat with bodies that focus on the environment and drinking-water, according to an independent review of the country’s ...

Steve Reed said the water system in the UK was "broken" and the government's planned reforms would "prevent the abuses of the ...

Wales is to have its own water watchdog, the Welsh and UK governments have announced. It comes after a review called for the system for regulating water companies to be overhauled and replaced. Ofwat, ...

After one of the driest springs on record, it recommends compulsory water metering, changes to wholesale tariffs for industrial users and greater water reuse and rainwater harvesting schemes.

The government-commissioned review was tasked to carry out the largest review of the sector since privatisation and it has said that in Wales there should be an independent economic regulator, which ...

Ofwat’s decisions comes after it said in July that it would allow bills to increase only by an average of 21% – before inflation – to fund new infrastructure.