" Customers are helping to pay for a £25bn programme to improve the water supply.
Since the industry was privatised in 1989, water companies have spent £108bn on upgrade work."
"Thames Water spokesman Simon Evans told Sky News: "What we spend on the system for our customers dwarfs the amount we pay out to shareholders."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/average-household-water-bill-rise-3-5-070310676--finance.html
Might there be some "vast eternal plan" that allows for the incessant carping about Government spending
our hard earned money. When, with water companies, we are to rejoice when the same happens?