RWE All Wet on Both Sides of the Atlantic

While Food & Water Watch was releasing a new report on the future of American Water, RWE’s other soon-to-be-former subsidiary Thames Water was busy infuriating British regulators and citizens for failing to notify customers of disruptive construction, not fixing massive leaks during a drought, and supplying dirty water.

Back on the other side of the ocean, communities are challenging proposed rate increases by American Water subsidiaries at utility commission hearings in three different U.S. states: California, Ohio, and New Mexico. And in other news about padding the bottom line, American Water announced that it signed its 500,000th so-called customer service line contract – a pipe fix guarantee program Food & Water Watch considers an unnecessary fee.*

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*correction 12/19/2006 – watch California organizer Adam Scow discuss a similar but entirely unrelated program on Channel 7 News.