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Petition 762640
Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
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27 February 2026
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6 September 2026
Summary
Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public should decide who owns and controls it. Private water companies have about 62 million captive customers whose bills have delivered over £85 Bn to shareholders; money that in public ownership could have been spent on fixing our infrastructure. No other country in the world has privatised water like this. We believe that proposed government reforms to regulation show that water company owners are being favoured over the public, and this is not right in a democracy. A referendum would give the public back its voice about its water.
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- Official source: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640
- Open data entity: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762640.json