{"id":15401,"date":"2025-11-04T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/ofwat-letting-water-firms-charge-twice-to-tackle-sewage-court-to-hear\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:30:34","slug":"ofwat-letting-water-firms-charge-twice-to-tackle-sewage-court-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/ofwat-letting-water-firms-charge-twice-to-tackle-sewage-court-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms\u2019 past failures to investOfwat is unlawfully allowing water companies to charge customers twice to fund more than \u00a3100bn of investment to reduce sewage pollution, campaigners will allege in court on Tuesday.Lawyers for River Action say the bill increases being allowed by Ofwat \u2013 which amount to an average of \u00a3123 a year per household \u2013 mean customers will be paying again for improvements to achieve environmental compliance that should have been funded from their previous bills. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/nov\/04\/ofwat-letting-water-firms-charge-twice-to-tackle-sewage-court-to-hear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=River+Action+bringing+legal+action+against+water+regulator+over+who+should+foot+bill+for+firms%E2%80%99+past+failures+to+investOfwat+is+unlawfully+allowing+water+companies+to+charge+customers+twice+to+fund+\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms\u2019 past failures to investOfwat is unlawfully allowing water companies to charge customers twice to fund more than \u00a3100bn of investment to reduce sewage pollution, campaigners will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15402,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions\/15402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}