WHAT WE CAN DO AS CAMPAIGNERS

WRITE TO YOUR MP 

1. Ask Labour to stick to its manifesto promise: 

"Labour will put failing water companies under special measures to clean up our water. 

We will give regulators new powers to block the payment of bonuses to executives who pollute our waterways and bring criminal charges against persistent law breakers. 

We will impose automatic and severe fines for wrongdoing and ensure independent monitoring of every outlet".

2. Ask Government to legislate on separating sewage from surface water in all new developments, with very few exceptions.

3. Ask Government to initiate pilot trials on the processing of industrial waste, reviewing discharges from selected industrial sites, building up ways of neutralising acidic wastes with alkaline wastes, flocculating substances in solution, and so on. This will result in no more mixing of industrial and domestic sewers.

4 Ask Government to require that all hard surface installation (i.e. roofs, driveways, roads etc) will have to pay a levy to create conduits to separate surface water from sewage proportionate to the amount of surface water that the hard surfaces will produce.

5. Ask Government to set out a timetable and plan will be laid out for achieving complete separation of surface water, sewage and industrial waste.

6. Ask Government to review the exact duties of the various bodies with control over water, and provide clear lines of communication and responsibility.

7. Support the idea of a "tap tax" on owners of swimming pools.

7.  Ask Government to reverse the privatisation of the water industry because it has failed

8. Buy shares in local Water Companies to enable bill payers’ voices to be heard at WC AGMs

9. Ask Government to set a levy on any hard surface (roofs, roads and car parks, driveways etc) that prevent rainwater from being absorbed into the ground

10. Ask government to charge a Wet Wipe Levy 

11. Ask Government to organise the recovery and recycling of cooking fat