Should the water companies be nationalised?

Water company United Utilities is paying out £180million to shareholders after failing to stop leaks as customers in the North West face a hosepipe ban.

YES 95% NO 5% No. Most water firms have actually managed to conserve supplies for this hot spell. MARK WILLIAM BOYD Yes. This has just made the case to re-nationalise the greedy, rip-off private water companies. TREVOR AMMANFORD Yes. The water companies still under-invest, bills go up, supply down, not because of the weather but because the pipes are old. CHARLIE FLEMING Yes. Water should never have been sold off, nor the trains. LET THE TRUTH BE SAID No. People who believe in the mantra of ‘public good’ ‘private bad’, are living in cloud cuckoo land. THOMAS ADAMS Yes. They’ve run the water industry like I’d run an old banger. Run it as long as it’ll still go. SOMETHING IN THE WATER