Gove warns water companies: Change or face the consequences

摘要

Michael Gove has aimed fierce criticism at the privatised water sector, saying the public see an industry that is "slow to stop leaks, slow to repair them, slow to stop pollution and slow to say sorry". Speaking at the Water UK City Conference on March 1, the environment secretary said that "change has to come" to quell the growing pressure for renationalisation, which he said would represent "a terrible backward step".