Utility companyâs plant, which has only run five times, now has an estimated total cost of £500m Thames Water is preparing the UKâs only mainland desalination plant to restart operations later this year â but it will not be ready until the winter, long after the current drought is likely to have passed. The utility company said that it was hoping to start operating its plant in Beckton, east London, âby the end of the yearâ, in order to help build up reservoir supplies over the winter for next summer. Water companies across the UK have imposed hosepipe bans as they try to conserve supplies, with much of the country enduring a fifth heatwave that is worsening drought conditions. The Beckton plant has only ever run five times, providing just 7.2bn litres of drinking water or about seven daysâ worth of the capitalâs daily demand over 15 years. Desalination plants are widely used in the Middle East to provide drinking water. Yet the desalination plant in Beckton has long been regarded as a white elephant. Thames Water, which supplies 16 million customers in London and the Thames valley, fully opened the plant in 2011, spending an initial £270m to install it. It was desi
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Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent Levels of a toxic âforever chemicalâ rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots…
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