This document should keep you awake at night. The govt’s National Risk Register now ranks losing our drinking water alongside a PANDEMIC as one of the two biggest threats facing the country This year, in the right-hand document: The chances of “Catastrophic impact” on our drinking water supplies - up to a one in four chance. Last year, same document (on the left) rated it a minor risk. Bottom of the chart. So what changed? Nothing changed! Water is still in private hands and depute the Water Special Measures Act deteriorating rapidly. This is where 36 years of privatised water has brought us. Tens of billions handed to shareholders. Over £60 billion of debt racked up on water assets that should belong to al of us. Leaking pipes. No new major reservoirs. Sewage in our rivers, on our beaches, in our sea. They didn’t invest. They extracted. And now the state’s own risk experts are telling us the tap water could go. And the regulators? They watched. Fines for pollution became a business expense. Thames Water’s creditors are now asking for their pollution fines to be written off. You couldn’t make this stuff up!!!! So let’s cut the crap about ‘tougher control’ of water companies. We’ve tried that for 36 years. It ended with drinking water on the national risk register next to a pandemic. You can’t regulate a cash machine into caring about you. There’s one answer. Bring water back into mutualised public ownership. Run for people, not profit. Answerable to bill payers, not bondholders. Every single pound going back into the pipes and reservoirs we should have built decades ago. Water is life. And yet we’ve watched it turned it into a payday. Time to take it back.