威尔·哈顿和安迪·哈尔德恩主张“将[公用事业]转变为公益公司，以提供高质量服务为首要宪制目标，利润从属于这一更广泛的目标”（《安迪·伯纳姆谈公用事业的“公共控制”，但这是雷区。我们可以带他穿过去》，9月25日）。所以它们仍然是公司，只是以公共利益而非利润动机为导向。这依然是错误的做法。
Will Hutton and Andy Haldane advocate “turning [utilities] into public-benefit companies with a primary, constitutional objective of delivering high-quality services, with profitability subordinate to that broader aim” ( Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it, 25 September ). So still companies, but with a public interest rather than a profit motive. This is still the wrong approach.
公用事业不应作为企业运营，而应作为基本公共服务运营。它们不是孤立运作的，商业模式不适合其以公共利益为出发点的运作模式。它们肩负着社会、环境以及经济责任，这些责任必须得到履行。在苏格兰议会成立前的20年里，苏格兰的地方政府在大区和辖区的框架内运作良好。大区拥有权力和责任，负责协调和战略性运营一系列职能，其中包括供水和污水处理。
Utilities should not be run as businesses but as essential public services. They do not function in isolation, and business models are unsuited to their functioning in the public interest. They have social and environmental as well as economic responsibilities that have to be met. For 20 years, prior to the advent of the Scottish parliament, local government functioned well in Scotland within a framework of regions and districts. The regions had powers and responsibilities for the wide range of functions that had to be coordinated and operated strategically at the regional level. They included water and sewerage.
现任政府似乎正通过大都会市长和联合工作，侧向迈向城市区域治理。这应予以正式确立，并赋予其完整的职责组合、权力和资源，用于战略规划、经济发展、教育、医疗、交通、基础设施和环境。基础设施应包含供水和污水处理。
The present government appears to be edging sideways, through metro mayors and joint working, towards governance for city regions. This should be formalised and given a full portfolio of responsibilities, powers and resources for strategic planning, economic development, education, health, transportation, infrastructure and the environment. Infrastructure should include water and sewerage.
以此为例，城市雨水需要收集和回收利用以供降温，这在南欧已延续数千年。这种做法应向北推广，纳入用于野火控制的水资源储备。此类措施、城市降温和野火控制，如何能靠利润动机来实现？
As an example, urban rainwater needs to be collected and recycled for cooling, which was normal practice for thousands of years in southern Europe. Such practice should be moving north to include water reserves for wildfire control. How could such provisions, urban cooling and wildfire control ever be met through the profit motive?
如果英格兰目前的水务公司负债超过其资产价值，且无法履行其法律责任，那么很难理解为何它们应当通过公共支出获得救助并得以维持。
If the present water companies in England have liabilities that exceed the value of their assets, and cannot meet their legal responsibilities, then it is difficult to see why they should be rescued and maintained through public expenditure.
罗杰·里德 Metrex前秘书长 威尔·哈顿和安迪·哈尔丹为维持公用事业私有制提出了站不住脚的论点。他们没有将现状与水务公有制时期进行比较——这无疑是最公平的比较——反而引用了其他国有化行业所谓失败的虚假案例。
Roger Read Former secretary general, Metrex Will Hutton and Andy Haldane put forward a poor argument for maintaining private ownership of utilities. Instead of comparing the present situation with how things were when the water utilities were publicly owned – surely the fairest comparison – they cite spurious examples of the alleged failings of other nationalised industries.
我们（英国）是世界上唯一（除智利外）拥有完全私有化水务行业的国家；难道其他所有人都走错了路？
We are alone in the world (apart from Chile) in having a wholly privatised water industry; is everyone else out of step?
萨莉·汤普森 卡迪夫 威尔·哈顿和安迪·哈尔丹对公用事业的公共控制提出了一些有趣的见解。这些见解也适用于整个基本服务领域，从水务公司到牙科诊所。鲜有亲历过战后老牌国有企业表现的人会希望回归这一失败模式。然而，为何不简单直接地通过立法，强制所有基本服务运营商在伦敦证券交易所上市？
Sally Thompson Cardiff Will Hutton and Andy Haldane give some interesting thoughts on the public control of utilities. These could also apply across the complete essential services sector, from water companies to dental practices. Few who experienced the performance of the old postwar nationalised industries would wish a return to this failed model. However, why not just keep it simple and legislate to force all essential-services operators to list as companies on the London Stock Exchange?
针对各个领域，进一步的立法可设定收益率上限和允许借贷额度：这两项是企业活动的关键指标。届时公众将更倾向于投资这些公司，就像他们目前投资国家电网一样。伊恩·格雷厄姆 坎布里亚郡卡莱尔港
For each sector, further legislation could set maximums for yields and permitted borrowing: two key indicators of company activity. The public would then be more inclined to invest in the companies, just as they do at present with National Grid. Ian Graham Port Carlisle, Cumbria