http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/water-giants-make-2billion-profit-4703371 Water giants make £2BILLION in profit - but SEVEN of them didn't pay a penny in tax 4/5ths of this planet is covered with water. Yet some private companies, many of them ultimately foreign owned , make £billions in profits selling an essential commodity to the people of this country. Without water, we would all die and these privately owned companies are very much aware of that simple fact. The great obscenity of the privatisation of the water companies, is that a government took what the nation already owned, sold it to their friends in the city, who then offered shares for sale to a few small "investors" and control of the water industry to a small number of large corporations who have been milking the profits ever since. It is a gross perversity, that companies can make huge profits from the sale of water and collectively pay little if any tax. There are certa...