Submitted on Friday 19th May 2023
Rejected on Thursday 25th May 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban Water Company's from issuing dividends and bonuses for 5 years.
Change legislation or put pressure on the Water Company's that will prevent them from issuing dividends to share holders until they have invested the £10 Billion they estimate is required to address the environmental problem of excessive release of raw sewage into the UK waterways.
Excessive release of raw sewage is a nationwide environmental problem. It is causing health problems to Humans, Flora and Fauna the length of the UK. This is happening because water company's have persistently under invested in the UK sewage treatment infrastructure so that they can prioritise diverting profit to shareholders as dividends and bonuses to senior managers.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The payment of dividends and bonuses is a matter for individual companies, not the UK Government or Parliament. You could start a new petition calling for a tax to be introduced on the profits of water companies found discharging sewage in to the water ways, if that's something that you'd like to see.
We currently have the following petitions open on this topic:
Bring forward requirements for tackling sewage discharges into seas and rivers
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/635193
Require water companies to pay a rebate when untreated sewage is discharged
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636517
Ban water companies dumping sewage in chalk streams
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637230
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