{"id":80362,"date":"2025-10-09T11:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80362"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:45:52","slug":"millions-of-households-to-face-higher-water-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/09\/millions-of-households-to-face-higher-water-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of households to face higher water bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1O8tCy.img?w=534&amp;h=332&amp;m=6\" alt=\"water bills\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions of households are facing\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/07\/18\/crumbling-water-industry-damaging-britains-economy-mps-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">higher-than-expected water bills<\/a> after the competition watchdog allowed five utility companies to increase their charges. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/millions-of-households-to-face-higher-water-bills\/ar-AA1O8bVf?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5dafc3d591204c558ed728c90fe85f9f&amp;ei=14\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Millions of households are facing\u00a0higher-than-expected water bills after the competition watchdog allowed five utility companies to increase their charges. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Flooded-Waterside-park.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80363,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80362\/revisions\/80363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}