Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected hikes to bills

Customers of 5 h2o firms are facing adjacent higher than expected rises to their bills aft the companies disputed limits imposed by the manufacture regulator.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was called successful to reappraisal Ofwat's determinations connected what Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water, and Wessex Water could complaint customers from 2025-30.

The CMA's sheet said connected Thursday: "The radical has provisionally decided to let 21% - an further £556m successful gross - of the full £2.7bn the 5 firms requested.

"This other backing is expected to effect successful an mean summation of 3% successful bills for customers of the disputing companies, which is successful summation to the 24% summation for customers of these companies expected arsenic portion of Ofwat's archetypal determination."

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