Events

Speakers – 

Kate Bayliss – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

David Hall – University of Greenwich

Video –
https://youtu.be/k5BMEN19zKo

This first JustWaterFutures seminar features a discussion of Thames Water and its Troubles. Kate Bayliss (Research Associate at the Department of Economics, SOAS) presents on private equity, Macquarie and the financialisation of the water system, as well as on the impossibility of regulation. David Hall (Greenwich University, PSIRU) discusses investments, dividends and the political context of the UK water industry. The discussion includes an assessment of the UK government’s “independent commission” which cannot consider public ownership even though 82% of the British public demand it.