London's Water Wars. The competition for London's water supply in the nineteenth century
Details:
- Author(s) Graham-Leigh, John
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 135pp; illus
- Publisher Francis Boutle Publishers
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
- Name Legislation & regulation exc h&s & competition policy
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Based on an Open University master's dissertation. The writer was a senior executive of Metropolitan Water Board, later Thames Water Plc, 1970-2000. An account of competition between London's leading water companies in an unregulated environment ahead of public ownership, and the subsequent move to regulation. Chapters include: 'The possesses - the old water companies to 1805'; 'The newcomers - the establishment of the South London, West Middlesex and East London Companies, 1805-10'; 'Competition, 1810-15'; 'Agreement, 1815-18'; 'The question of charges, 1818-21'; 'The Parliamentary Select Committee of 1821'; 'Fraud and investment - the men behind the companies'; 'The first Metropolis Water Act'; 'Competition yesterday and today'; 'Appendix - Historians' attitudes to the London water companies'. Much about individual companies