This week, we said we’d be flushing out the lies. So, here’s another for you John.

LIE 💩: Water companies say they’re investing in better infrastructure. ⚠️⚠️⚠️ 

FLUSHED 🚽: Funny, that’s not what WE’VE found: In the past 35 years, water companies have racked up £69.2 billion in debt and paid out £74.2 billion to shareholders. And last year alone in England, we saw 450,398 sewage discharges. 

The money was clearly there. But water companies have repeatedly decided to put shareholder PROFITS before people’s health and our ocean. 

We can’t say we’re surprised, but we CAN call for change. 

That’s why we’re ramping up the pressure – no slowing down, no holding back – until we get the transformational reform to the water industry we so desperately need.  

With the Independent Water Commission making recommendations on the future of our waters as we speak, we can’t let up the pressure. Will you chip in this week to help us push for a sustainable water system that protects people’s health and our ocean? 

The previous government estimated it would cost up to £63 billion to tackle the worst of the sewage discharges. But that sum still falls far short than what’s already been handed out to shareholders in the past few decades.

We need a system that invests in sewage treatment infrastructure, rather than rewarding shareholders for pollution.  

John, donating today will help us flush out MORE lies - and crank up the volume on our campaigning teams, so they can unmask the toxic truth about our waters. 

That’s why we’re going BIG with our Paddle-Out Protests on 17th May, to lift the lid on hidden data and call for radical reform of the water industry. It’s your donations that make protests like these possible. 

Please give what you can, so we can win the change we’ve been fighting for: 

Thank you for helping us get this far – we’re SO close to getting the changes we need to see to the water system.  

For the ocean 🌊 

Chloe, Campaigns Officer 

P.S. If you’ve already donated, thank you SO much – and sorry to email you again (sometimes we’re not able to update our systems as quickly as we’d like).