Submitted on Friday 27th February 2026
Rejected on Tuesday 24th March 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it.
Private water companies have about 62 million captive customers whose bills have delivered over £85 Bn to shareholders; money that in public ownership would have been spent on fixing our infrastructure. No other country in the world has privatised water like this. Proposed government reforms to regulation show that water company owners are being favoured over the public, and this is not right in a democracy. A referendum would give the public back its voice about its water.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign the following petition, which call for similar action:
Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757426
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