COMMENT-Major infrastructure comes back onto the agenda

摘要

Last month, we were talking about Ofwat's report into how companies coped with the freezing temperatures during the Beast from the East. This month, the focus has switched to how they can cope with drought amid a prolonged spell of warm weather. Increasingly, extreme weather looks like the new normal and, for many, there is significant work to do. After nearly 50,000 customers lost supply for more than 12 hours amid the freezing weather, the introduction of hosepipe bans in some areas of the UK and Ireland has served to generate further public anger towards the industry at a time when its highly publicised profit-making is fuelling calls for renationalisation.