Rejected petition 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.

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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.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

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
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/635193

Require water companies to pay a rebate when untreated sewage is discharged
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636517

Ban water companies dumping sewage in chalk streams
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637230

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 19 May 2023
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