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Thames Water is to relocate 135 jobs from its Operations Customer Centre in Swindon to Reading next April. 07-Oct-2009 Thames Water is to set up a 43,000 sq ft operations management office at Green Park in Reading. 28-Sep-2009 Thames Water is considering plans to relocate hundreds of staff from Reading town centre to a new office at nearby Green Park. 25-Aug-2009 Thames Water is to shed up to 300 support services jobs in Reading and Swindon, in order to save £7m. 29-Jan-2009 Thames Water has secured government approval to build a £200m desalination plant at Beckton in East London by summer 2009. 19-Jul-2007 Thames Water, the water company with more than 13m customers in London and the South East, is to be acquired by a consortium led by Macquarie of Australia for £8bn. 17-Oct-2006 Thames Water has unveiled plans build a new £1bn reservoir near Abingdon by 2018. 15-Sep-2006 Thames Water has announced plans to shed 25% of the jobs from its 6,000-strong workforce by 2010, with back-office staff and middle management expected to be hardest hit. 30-Aug-2006 Thames Water is planning to shed hundreds of jobs later this year, as part of a cost-cutting programme. 14-Aug-2006 Thames Water is expected to be put up for sale by German parent company RWE. 07-Nov-2005 Thames Water is to expand the 350-strong workforce in its engineering department with 90 new jobs over the next 12 months. 15-Dec-2004 Thames Water is to shed 200 jobs at its meter reading and administration call centre in Swindon. 18-Jun-2004 Thames Water is planning to build a £200m desalination plant in Barking by 2007. 01-Jun-2004 Thames Water is to shed up to 28 of the 100 jobs at its Highworth office near Swindon. 17-May-2004 Thames Water has announced a £1bn project to replace water mains in central London over the next five years. 02-Feb-2004 Thames Water has sold Subterra, the provider of utility maintenance services, to Enterprise for an initial £19m. 02-Sep-2003 Thames Water is seeking a buyer for its Subterra underground utilities business, which has 900 staff. 30-Jan-2003 Thames Water is expected to award a £140m contract to Intersperse and Prides for the construction of a desalination plant at Beckton in east London. 12-Dec-2002 Thames Water is planning to shed 150 jobs at its call centre in Swindon by January 2004, and is expected to put the customer services contract out to tender. 04-Oct-2002 Thames Water has bought a 75% stake in two Spanish water companies - Pridesa and Ondagua - from Iberdrola for £59m. 26-Sep-2002 Thames Water is to build two sewage works in Buckinghamshire at a cost of £40m, and Interserve and Amec have been selected to carry out the work. 15-Aug-2002 Thames Water is linking up with the 186k telecoms division of Lattice Group to invest £34m in the development of a fibre communications network in London's sewers. 24-Jan-2002 Enterprise has acquired Brophy, the provider of ground maintenance and street care services to local authorities, from Thames Water for £4m. 09-Nov-2001 Thames Water has awarded a £80m contract to Taylor Woodrow and Black & Veatch to build a waste water treatment plant in Reading. 18-Jan-2001 Thames Water is to be acquired by RWE for £4.3bn, as part of a strategy by the German company to create a pan-European multi-utility group. 26-Sep-2000 Thames Water is facing the prospect of a £4.3bn takeover offer from RWE of Germany. 21-Sep-2000 Thames Water is planning to spend £750m on infrastructure projects over the next five years, and is seeking tenders from 10 contractors. 05-Apr-2000 Thames Water is forming a joint venture with Operations Management International of the US to provide water and waste water services to large North American companies. 20-Mar-2000 Thames Water is to invest £122m improving the quality of drinking water in Jakarta, having renegotiated a contract with the Indonesian capital's city council. 02-Feb-2000 Thames Water is looking to generate more than 30% of its profits from operations outside the UK water industry within the next five years, by investing up to £500m a year. 19-Jan-2000 Thames Water is to acquire E'town, the US supplier of water services in New Jersey, in a £575m deal. 23-Nov-1999 Thames Water is considering a number of potential overseas investments in order to offset the effect of price controls in the UK water industry. 03-Nov-1999 Thames Water is planning to build a multi-million pound sewage plant in Reading to replace the existing Manor Farm facility. 11-Sep-1999 Thames Water is to combine its three contracting companies into a new division called Subterra, in order to offer a one-stop shop for major projects. 08-Jul-1999 Thames Water is to operate the water supply system in the Malaysian state of Johor in partnership with local company SAJ Holdings, and expects to generate annual sales of $60m. 07-Jun-1999 Thames Water is forming a joint venture with Electricidade de Portugal in order to participate in water and waste projects in Brazil, Chile and Portugal. 25-May-1999 Thames Water is forming a joint venture with the Renewable Energy Company to sell electricity generated from sewage, under the name Ecotricity. 05-Mar-1999 Thames Water is planning a £10m project to drill 50 boreholes to pump out 15m gallons of water a day from underneath London, in order to prevent flooding. 27-Feb-1999 Thames Water International and Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux of France are to take over the management of Jakarta's water supply in Indonesia, which will involve upgrading the pipework and making the water fit to drink within five years. 16-Feb-1998
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