This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition End sewage discharges into the rivers and sea.
Storm overflows were designed in the Victorian era to be used during extreme weather to prevent sewers becoming overloaded by releasing diluted wastewater into rivers rather than letting it back up into people’s homes. They should all be updated by 2025 (priority areas) and 2030, not 2050!
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The current Government Plan will require water companies to take actions in order to tackle storm sewage discharges by 2050, including:
Reducing the volume of discharges
Treating sewage before it is discharged
Delivering £56 billion of investment in infrastructure
Improve all overflows discharging into or near designated bathing water, and 75% of overflows discharging to high priority ecological sites, by 2035
Ensure no storm overflows are operating outside of unusually heavy rainfall by 2050
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