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Thames Water Utilities LimitedGuardian
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Thames Water agreed to pay a 150 m dividend hours before its shareholders U-turned on plans to pump emergency funding into the struggling water supplier.
The water industry regulator was examining the decision by the debt-laden company’s board to sign off the payout at a meeting on 27 March .
The following day, the company said an imminent 500 m injection of funds that had been pledged by its investors would not be paid, amid a standoff with Ofwat .
Thames said it was too early to know what the outcome of the inquiries into the dividend payment would be.
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