No BOTs, please – we’re British

The response to Defra’s consultation into privately financed water projects in the UK has been less than welcoming.

 UK water companies have raised serious doubts over the government’s plan to farm out large, complex and “high-risk” industry projects to third-party providers in future under project finance arrangements.

 
Ahead of the 17 May deadline for responses to Defra’s consultation exercise into the proposed Special Infrastructure Projects Regime (SIPR), the industry umbrella group Water UK submitted an 11-page ...

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