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April 14, 2026 3:49 pm
|Carolyn Essid
In an article published by Bloomberg on 14 April, 2026, Tim Whittaker, Director of the EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute (EIPA), comments on the escalating financial crisis at Thames Water and the growing risk of government involvement:
“This situation illustrates just how fragile Thames Water’s balance sheet has become,” said Tim Whittaker, a research director at the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute. “Its high leverage, combined with Ofwat’s regulatory constraints, leaves little flexibility to resolve this without some form of government intervention.”
🔗 Read the full article on Bloomberg, or the republished version on The Edge Singapore.
