Paying more won't net you a better one.
Yes they do, from rival businesses, superior and new technology, just look at Chat-GPT potentially putting programmers out of work, or telegrams being made redundant by pagers, and text messages and email.
@arethuza
>CEOs of corporations of the same size quite often have to find and retain customers in competitive markets - which is hardly the case with Thames Water?
Water companies are delivering a minimum standard of water, call it the least toxic form of water considering the energy constraints and logistics of delivering water en-masse compared to other methods of obtaining water.
Mains water from a very young age always made me sick, so where possible I use bottled spring water in the kettle, but am currently considering a reverse osmosis water filter, to deionise the water in the house as much as possible.
Deionised water is the best tasting, sweetest tasting water I've ever experienced, and if I listened to the medical experts I should be dead on numerous counts of their assertations. So two fingers up to them as well! LOL
https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/About-Us/News-and-Views/2022...
Carefully chosen words, someone has done their research!
Thats what happens when new standards come into force and improve upon the old standards.
https://environment.data.gov.uk/portalstg/home/item.html?id=...
"The purpose of this dataset is to present a summary of bathing water compliance in England between 1988 and 2014 against the old bathing water directive (76/160/EEC), which was repealed on the 31/12/2014"
However I'm not against better standards, but I am against some of the "engineered" methods used to gain those standards....
https://www.ciwem.org/the-environment/how-should-water-and-e....
As I was saying, some things are engineered....
There's so many factors potentially at play here and some of it we wont get to ever know about, but life has taught me there is manipulation in many guises.
What changed?
An upgrade to Eli Parsier's original filter bubble warning, one might say. https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...
In the examples here, no, CEOs don’t face real competition. Water companies are sold off public utilities. They way they make profit is to degrade service and raise prices. No one is going to install a competing water system. No AI is going to do that anytime soon.
The Economist has a political bent, but they are clear on how privatisation has gone: ‘Dogmatic adherence to privatisation in the face of its sustained failure suggests ideology, not pragmatism, was the motivation.’
> Water companies are delivering a minimum standard of water
No they aren’t. That’s a key point in the article.
So that other technologies, like rainfall capture systems and water filtration systems can be become financially viable through economies of scale. If you have a roof you can top up water tanks, water filtration systems clean the water and can recycle the water. Reverse Osmosis filtration which deionises the water is about as pure as you can get, so pure nothing can grow in it, which is why colony forming units (CFU's) aka TVC's are so low, lower than spring water.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/spring-water-rules-for-local-aut...
This article explains why Thames Water is in the news. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/poll/2013/... "after 2025, Thames Water believes more drastic measures will be needed"
Not long to go.... standby for some more "engineered" news.
>The Economist has a political bent,
Whilst its easy to say, privatise problems, Thames water has its own unique problems, but when looking at something like the coal miners, what did it do? It shifted people away from using coal to other less large airborne particulate laden forms of fossil fuel, the latest being air source heat pumps 1w in 4watts out at best, solar power 15-22% efficiency, and nuclear with the debate over the use of different nuclear fuels, like plutonium and thorium. Sort by Specific Energy (MJ/Kg) at this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_nuclear_reac...
Anyway some things are engineered including things in the news like Thames Water.... Someone's getting a shake down!
I meant while applying to their own position. Not between corps. The CEO market is artificially small.
If the RMT had that amount of money I’ve no doubt Mick Lynch would be using it to buy the railways
Is that the combined salaries of all union members?
That’s a pretty amazing figure, how was that calculated?
Are you seriously arguing that that the Thames Water CEO was underpaid? They have been mismanaged extraordinarily. Their debts, losses, costs, service and environment records are so poor that nationalisation is being discussed. They have been paying dividends and bonuses throughout.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/10/thames-wate...