{"id":198196,"date":"2024-12-19T07:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T07:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/water-bills-to-rise-by-31-over-next-five-years-regulator-says\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T07:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T07:07:21","slug":"water-bills-to-rise-by-31-over-next-five-years-regulator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/19\/water-bills-to-rise-by-31-over-next-five-years-regulator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Water bills to rise by \u00a331 over next five years, regulator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/4896\/live\/b0bd9280-bd4d-11ef-a164-7d6c07cbd92c.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Water bills to rise by \u00a331 over next five years, regulator says\" title=\"Water bills to rise by \u00a331 over next five years, regulator says\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Water bills are set to rise by an average of \u00a331 per year over five years from April, the industry regulator has said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ofwat said the increase was enough for water companies in England and Wales to pay for upgrades and reduce sewage discharges.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It comes amid public anger over sewage discharges into waterways and a continuing squeeze on household finances.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgx3rv7p21o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water bills are set to rise by an average of \u00a331 per year over five years from April, the industry regulator has said. Ofwat said the increase was enough for water companies in England and Wales to pay for upgrades and reduce sewage discharges. It comes amid public anger over sewage discharges into waterways and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/4896\/live\/b0bd9280-bd4d-11ef-a164-7d6c07cbd92c.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[14757,6564,572,556,111],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198198,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198196\/revisions\/198198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}