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22nd - 26th October 2026

Join the Mass Lobby

If you can't join in person, join us by emailing your MP.

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From 22nd to 26th October, communities across England will meet their MPs face to face, share what is happening to their local waters and call for a Clean Water Bill that puts our health, our waters and future generations first.

If you can’t attend in person, you can still email your MP that week and tell them what sewage pollution has done to the water where you live.

The more of us who speak up, the harder it is for them to ignore us. Every voice, including yours, matters now more than ever.

Tell your MP to fight for the waters we love.

North of England

London & South East

South West

Wales

Can't join us in person?

Mass Lobby is all about collective action. If you can’t join in person, you can still use your voice. Email your MP and tell them how sewage pollution is affecting the waters you love.

WHY YOUR MP NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU

MPs are elected to represent you. But most of them will only ever hear about water pollution through headlines and briefing notes. Very few have stood on a beach or a riverbank in their constituency and been told, by someone who lives there, what has been happening to it. Or how many times the community has been made sick after surfing or swimming. Even how it saddens you to see the quality of water deteriorate in front of you. Those are the conversations that change things. And we need to be having them now more than ever before.

AN MP CAN LEAVE AN EMAIL UNANSWERED, BUT IT'S MUCH HARDER TO SIT IN FRONT OF THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS AND TELL THEM THE WATER THEY SWIM IN DOESN'T MATTER.
AS IT STANDS, the propsals for THE BILL WON'T DELIVER THE CLEAN WATER IT PROMISES

according to the proposed plans

THE BILL IS STILL DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE SYSTEM, NOT US

Because the proposed Clean Water Bill protects the system that caused the sewage crisis. It protects the water companies and their shareholders, not the public, our health or our waters. MPs have the power to fix this Bill and they work for us, not the water companies. They just need to know this matters to the people who voted for them.

IN MAY, AROUND 8,000 PEOPLE TOOK TO THE WATER IN THE BIGGEST PADDLE-OUT PROTEST SAS HAS EVER RUN

So, WHAT IS THE MASS LOBBY?

A lobby is simply a conversation with your MP. You, in the same place as the person who will vote on this Bill, and the opportunity to tell them how sewage pollution impacts you and the waters you love.

MPs work for us, not the water companies. But they only fight for what we tell them matters. MPs have the power to change this Bill. But they have a narrow window to do it in. Tell them to fight for a bill that puts our health, our waters and future generations first. Tell them to fight for the waters we love.

But why now?

For 35 years, privatised water companies have treated our rivers, lakes and seas as a dumping ground. They have underinvested in infrastructure, dumped raw sewage on a colossal scale, and paid the profits out to shareholders while hiking our bills.

Last year there were 288,649 sewage discharges in England. The privitised water industry has allowed this to happen and enough is enough.

Since privatisation in 1989, England's water companies have paid out more than £75 billion to shareholders while racking up £69.2 billion in debt. They were handed the infrastructure for free, debt-free, with £5 billion earmarked for environmental improvements. That money wasn't invested in pipes or sewage treatment. It was paid out to shareholders.

An average of 35 pence in every pound you pay on your water bill goes to service debt and shareholder returns, not to fix the infrastructure that's pumping sewage into our rivers. This is not bad luck or bad management. It is what happens when you run a public service as a profit extraction machine.

AN AVERAGE OF 35 PENCE IN EVERY POUND YOU PAY ON YOUR WATER BILL GOES TO SERVICE DEBT AND SHAREHOLDER RETURNS

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