Woman without water for three days calls Thames Water bill hike proposal ‘greed’ - Several Thames Water customers have been without water for days after a water pipe burst.

Thames Water has launched an appeal to allow it to increase bills by more than the regulator wants to permit. The UK's largest utility company is calling on the competition regulator to overturn a decision from the water industry regulator, Ofwat, which caps bill rises at 35% over the next five years.

Thames Water is expected to appeal for permission to raise water bills by 53 per cent over the next five years, despite a three-day water outage which left residents across south east London forced to collect bottled water on foot.

Troubled Thames Water has appealed against an inflation-busting price rise agreed by regulator Ofwat, arguing it was doing so “in the interests of our customers and the environment"

British utility Thames Water lodged an appeal to the country's competition regulator on Friday, beginning a process to try to raise the prices it can charge customers for the next five years and improve its chances of survival.

Thames Water has launched an appeal to the competition regulator as the embattled utility fights to secure an eye-watering 53 per cent rise in consumer bills and keep itself afloat.

Industry regulator Ofwat has capped bill rises for the firm at 35% over the next five years. Thames Water has now urged the competition regulator to overturn the decision from the

Watford's sewerage service provider Thames Water is asking the competition regulator to allow it to charge customers even more.