Start dredging our waterways in the UK to assist in preventing flooding

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Popularity

This petition has 5,159 signatures in total, with signatories from 616 constituencies. That makes it the 3,368th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 43% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 55% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 219 - Penrith and The Border
• 158 - Carlisle
• 125 - Workington
• 104 - Selby and Ainsty
• 89 - West Lancashire
• 84 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 81 - Copeland
• 70 - South Ribble
• 67 - Thirsk and Malton
• 59 - East Yorkshire
• 50 - Brigg and Goole
• 43 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 40 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 39 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 38 - Calder Valley
• 38 - Beverley and Holderness
• 36 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 36 - York Outer
• 35 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 33 - Southport
• 33 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 32 - Gainsborough
• 32 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 29 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 27 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 26 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 26 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 25 - York Central
• 25 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 25 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 25 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 24 - Angus
• 24 - Moray
• 23 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 23 - Barrow and Furness
• 21 - Leeds West
• 21 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 21 - Doncaster North
• 20 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 20 - Louth and Horncastle
• 20 - Hexham
• 20 - Chorley
• 19 - Somerton and Frome
• 19 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 19 - Leeds Central
• 18 - Morley and Outwood
• 18 - Bradford South
• 18 - Wyre and Preston North
• 18 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 18 - Taunton Deane
• 17 - Wantage
• 17 - Shipley
• 17 - North Shropshire
• 16 - Halifax
• 16 - Skipton and Ripon
• 16 - Bassetlaw
• 16 - Banff and Buchan
• 16 - Ceredigion
• 16 - Leeds East
• 15 - Maldon
• 15 - Bromsgrove
• 15 - Keighley
• 14 - Harwich and North Essex
• 14 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 14 - North Norfolk
• 14 - North Warwickshire
• 14 - Dudley North
• 14 - Tamworth
• 14 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 14 - Witney
• 14 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 14 - Ribble Valley
• 14 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 13 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 13 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 13 - Grantham and Stamford
• 13 - Wigan
• 13 - Fylde
• 12 - Aberconwy
• 12 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 12 - Erewash
• 12 - Ludlow
• 12 - Wakefield
• 12 - Banbury
• 12 - North East Fife
• 12 - Hemsworth
• 12 - Montgomeryshire
• 12 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 12 - Sedgefield
• 11 - Stourbridge
• 11 - Macclesfield
• 11 - Stone
• 11 - Stafford
• 11 - Dover
• 11 - Preston
• 11 - Leeds North West
• 11 - Nottingham South
• 11 - The Cotswolds
• 11 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 11 - Warwick and Leamington
• 11 - Wyre Forest
• 11 - West Bromwich West
• 10 - North Herefordshire
• 10 - Buckingham
• 10 - Yeovil
• 10 - Gloucester
• 10 - North Cornwall
• 10 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 10 - Monmouth
• 10 - Don Valley
• 10 - Makerfield
• 10 - Newark
• 10 - Suffolk Coastal
• 10 - Huntingdon
• 10 - Torridge and West Devon
• 10 - Stockton South
• 10 - North Swindon
• 10 - Sunderland Central
• 9 - South Northamptonshire
• 9 - Lichfield
• 9 - Rochester and Strood
• 9 - Weston-super-Mare
• 9 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 9 - Broadland
• 9 - Bolton West
• 9 - Leeds North East
• 9 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 9 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 9 - St Helens North
• 9 - Clacton
• 9 - Tatton
• 9 - North East Somerset
• 9 - South Suffolk
• 9 - Blackpool South
• 9 - Daventry
• 9 - Barnsley East
• 9 - South Derbyshire
• 9 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 9 - Bishop Auckland
• 8 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 8 - Milton Keynes North
• 8 - Huddersfield
• 8 - Harborough
• 8 - Redditch
• 8 - North Wiltshire
• 8 - Portsmouth North
• 8 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 8 - Milton Keynes South
• 8 - Henley
• 8 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 8 - Rochford and Southend East
• 8 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 8 - Boston and Skegness
• 8 - Bradford East
• 8 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 8 - South East Cornwall
• 8 - Rugby
• 8 - Wells
• 8 - South Norfolk
• 8 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 8 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 8 - Worcester
• 8 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 8 - City of Durham
• 8 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 8 - Stockton North
• 8 - Ashfield
• 8 - Clwyd West
• 8 - Salford and Eccles
• 8 - Eddisbury
• 8 - Central Devon
• 8 - Scunthorpe
• 8 - Gordon
• 8 - Argyll and Bute
• 8 - Warrington South
• 8 - East Lothian
• 7 - West Worcestershire
• 7 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 7 - Ipswich
• 7 - Warrington North
• 7 - Bury North
• 7 - North Durham
• 7 - North Dorset
• 7 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 7 - Lincoln
• 7 - Ynys Môn
• 7 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 7 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 7 - Mid Derbyshire
• 7 - Hyndburn
• 7 - Wycombe
• 7 - Worthing West
• 7 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 7 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 7 - Mid Worcestershire
• 7 - Basildon and Billericay
• 7 - Wansbeck
• 7 - Rutland and Melton
• 7 - Great Yarmouth
• 7 - Doncaster Central
• 7 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 7 - Fareham
• 7 - East Surrey
• 7 - Sefton Central
• 7 - Forest of Dean
• 7 - Sheffield South East
• 7 - Charnwood
• 7 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 7 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 7 - Thurrock
• 7 - The Wrekin
• 7 - Witham
• 7 - North West Durham
• 6 - Leicester West
• 6 - Maidenhead
• 6 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 6 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 6 - North East Bedfordshire
• 6 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 6 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 6 - Salisbury
• 6 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 6 - Newport East
• 6 - Romford
• 6 - Llanelli
• 6 - Sherwood
• 6 - Wallasey
• 6 - Bury St Edmunds
• 6 - Newton Abbot
• 6 - North West Norfolk
• 6 - Telford
• 6 - Wolverhampton South East
• 6 - Norwich North
• 6 - Nottingham North
• 6 - St Austell and Newquay
• 6 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 6 - South Cambridgeshire
• 6 - Portsmouth South
• 6 - Southend West
• 6 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 6 - Mansfield
• 6 - Aberdeen North
• 6 - Walsall North
• 6 - Congleton
• 6 - Kettering
• 6 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 6 - Hertford and Stortford
• 6 - Coventry South
• 6 - High Peak
• 6 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 6 - Colchester
• 6 - Gosport
• 6 - Halton
• 6 - Cannock Chase
• 6 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 6 - Blaydon
• 6 - Arundel and South Downs
• 6 - Beckenham
• 6 - Blyth Valley
• 6 - Ealing North
• 6 - Braintree
• 6 - Epsom and Ewell
• 6 - Dudley South
• 6 - Exeter
• 6 - Broxtowe
• 6 - Hemel Hempstead
• 5 - Cleethorpes
• 5 - Spelthorne
• 5 - Hartlepool
• 5 - North West Leicestershire
• 5 - Colne Valley
• 5 - Bristol East
• 5 - Newport West
• 5 - Chippenham
• 5 - North East Hertfordshire
• 5 - Christchurch
• 5 - Stroud
• 5 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 5 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 5 - Southampton, Test
• 5 - South Leicestershire
• 5 - Gateshead
• 5 - Pudsey
• 5 - Saffron Walden
• 5 - Putney
• 5 - Alyn and Deeside
• 5 - Devizes
• 5 - Rushcliffe
• 5 - Darlington
• 5 - Peterborough
• 5 - Great Grimsby
• 5 - South West Norfolk
• 5 - Gravesham
• 5 - South Swindon
• 5 - Swansea West
• 5 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 5 - South Staffordshire
• 5 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 5 - Livingston
• 5 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 5 - Windsor
• 5 - Castle Point
• 5 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 5 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 5 - Mid Sussex
• 5 - Camborne and Redruth
• 5 - Isle of Wight
• 5 - Winchester
• 5 - Meriden
• 5 - Meon Valley
• 5 - Burton
• 5 - Caerphilly
• 5 - Burnley
• 5 - Waveney
• 5 - South Down
• 5 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 5 - Leigh
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 5 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 5 - Mid Norfolk
• 5 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 5 - Truro and Falmouth
• 5 - North East Derbyshire
• 5 - Bosworth
• 5 - Twickenham
• 4 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 4 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 4 - West Dorset
• 4 - East Devon
• 4 - North Down
• 4 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 4 - Wokingham
• 4 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 4 - Harlow
• 4 - Wirral South
• 4 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 4 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 4 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 4 - Derbyshire Dales
• 4 - Derby South
• 4 - Derby North
• 4 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 4 - Stockport
• 4 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 4 - Torbay
• 4 - Chelmsford
• 4 - Cheltenham
• 4 - Sutton and Cheam
• 4 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 4 - Tewkesbury
• 4 - Sutton Coldfield
• 4 - Coventry North West
• 4 - Wellingborough
• 4 - Croydon South
• 4 - Warley
• 4 - Bolsover
• 4 - Walsall South
• 4 - South West Wiltshire
• 4 - Bexhill and Battle
• 4 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 4 - Tynemouth
• 4 - Chichester
• 4 - Oxford East
• 4 - Stirling
• 4 - Nuneaton
• 4 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 4 - Loughborough
• 4 - Heywood and Middleton
• 4 - Batley and Spen
• 4 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 4 - Basingstoke
• 4 - Northampton North
• 4 - Jarrow
• 4 - New Forest East
• 4 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 4 - Epping Forest
• 4 - Hazel Grove
• 4 - Vale of Clwyd
• 4 - Leicester South
• 4 - North East Hampshire
• 4 - Beaconsfield
• 4 - Battersea
• 4 - Ashford
• 4 - Rotherham
• 4 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 4 - Cardiff West
• 4 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 3 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 3 - Hastings and Rye
• 3 - Middlesbrough
• 3 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 3 - Hove
• 3 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 3 - Canterbury
• 3 - Neath
• 3 - Tunbridge Wells
• 3 - New Forest West
• 3 - North Devon
• 3 - Chesterfield
• 3 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 3 - Hayes and Harlington
• 3 - Orkney and Shetland
• 3 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 3 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 3 - Amber Valley
• 3 - Totnes
• 3 - West Suffolk
• 3 - Cynon Valley
• 3 - Luton North
• 3 - Upper Bann
• 3 - Wealden
• 3 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 3 - Wirral West
• 3 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 3 - Brent Central
• 3 - Leicester East
• 3 - Newry and Armagh
• 3 - Bradford West
• 3 - Lagan Valley
• 3 - Lewisham East
• 3 - Aberdeen South
• 3 - Blackburn
• 3 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 3 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 3 - Bury South
• 3 - Islington North
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Dundee East
• 3 - Manchester Central
• 3 - Weaver Vale
• 3 - Falkirk
• 3 - Central Ayrshire
• 3 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 3 - Kensington
• 3 - Lewes
• 3 - Harrow West
• 3 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 3 - Garston and Halewood
• 3 - Denton and Reddish
• 3 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 3 - Poole
• 3 - Gower
• 3 - Gedling
• 3 - South Shields
• 3 - Pendle
• 3 - South West Bedfordshire
• 3 - South West Devon
• 3 - South West Hertfordshire
• 3 - South Dorset
• 3 - Redcar
• 3 - North Tyneside
• 3 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 3 - Eastleigh
• 3 - Eastbourne
• 3 - East Ham
• 3 - Rother Valley
• 3 - Enfield, Southgate
• 3 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 3 - Bedford
• 3 - Rochdale
• 3 - Esher and Walton
• 3 - Reigate
• 3 - Aberavon
• 3 - South West Surrey
• 3 - Corby
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 3 - North Thanet
• 3 - St Ives
• 3 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 3 - Birkenhead
• 3 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 3 - Barking
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 3 - Surrey Heath
• 3 - Nottingham East
• 3 - Torfaen
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 3 - Barnsley Central
• 3 - Stevenage
• 2 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 2 - Midlothian
• 2 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 2 - Glasgow North West
• 2 - Glasgow North East
• 2 - East Londonderry
• 2 - Belfast East
• 2 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 2 - Glasgow North
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 2 - Edinburgh South West
• 2 - Cardiff North
• 2 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 2 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 2 - Swansea East
• 2 - Inverclyde
• 2 - Ogmore
• 2 - Edinburgh West
• 2 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 2 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 2 - Glenrothes
• 2 - Bath
• 2 - Blackley and Broughton
• 2 - Pontypridd
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Edinburgh South
• 2 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 2 - Reading West
• 2 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 2 - Northampton South
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Slough
• 2 - Chesham and Amersham
• 2 - Cheadle
• 2 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - Tooting
• 2 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 2 - Walthamstow
• 2 - Guildford
• 2 - St Albans
• 2 - Crawley
• 2 - Reading East
• 2 - Enfield North
• 2 - Eltham
• 2 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 2 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 2 - Easington
• 2 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 2 - Ealing, Southall
• 2 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 2 - Solihull
• 2 - Norwich South
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 2 - Bolton South East
• 2 - Ilford South
• 2 - Wimbledon
• 2 - Liverpool, Walton
• 2 - Wolverhampton North East
• 2 - Wolverhampton South West
• 2 - Bracknell
• 2 - Orpington
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - Bournemouth East
• 2 - Bootle
• 2 - Westminster North
• 2 - Bristol North West
• 2 - West Bromwich East
• 2 - Newbury
• 2 - Bristol South
• 2 - Mitcham and Morden
• 2 - Ilford North
• 1 - Havant
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Hertsmere
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Blaenau Gwent
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Harrow East
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 1 - Cardiff Central
• 1 - Knowsley
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - City of Chester
• 1 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 1 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 1 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 1 - Strangford
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - Foyle
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - Belfast South
• 1 - Dundee West
• 1 - East Renfrewshire
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - Aldershot
• 1 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 1 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - Sevenoaks
• 1 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - Dewsbury
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Southampton, Itchen
• 1 - Coventry North East
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Wythenshawe and Sale East

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 1,303 - North West
• 934 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 419 - West Midlands
• 404 - Scotland
• 391 - South East
• 355 - East of England
• 350 - East Midlands
• 344 - South West
• 193 - North East
• 192 - Wales
• 162 - London
• 27 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 5,125 - United Kingdom
• 4 - Germany
• 4 - Spain
• 4 - France
• 3 - Isle of Man
• 3 - Canada
• 2 - Australia
• 2 - Thailand
• 1 - United States
• 1 - Netherlands
• 1 - Malaysia
• 1 - Kazakhstan
• 1 - Philippines
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - Hong Kong
• 1 - Gibraltar
• 1 - Falkland Islands
• 1 - Finland
• 1 - Cyprus
• 1 - Channel Islands