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Put public drinking water taps in every city, town and village in the UK

Submitted on Wednesday 12th June 2019

Rejected on Monday 15th July 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Put public drinking water taps in every city, town and village in the UK

Petition Details

Having public drinking water taps in every UK city, town and village where anybody can refill water bottles would help reduce the wasteful resource use and environmental harm of bottling and transporting water and help reduce plastic waste and throwaway drinks cups.

Additional Information

I've seen such public drinking water taps all over Cyprus put in by the British authorities in the 1950's. Please can the UK government do the same for us at home and help end the harmful blight of thrown away plastic bottles and cups littering and polluting our landscape.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only accept petitions which call for actions that are the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

Installing public water fountains would be the responsibility of local authorities and water companies.

You could start a new petition calling for an action that's the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament. For example, you could start a new petition calling for the Government to establish a national fund for public water fountains, to which local authorities can apply.

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