Stop the unacceptable waste water bill increase imposed by water companies.

The water companies have imposed an unacceptable increase for waste water bills of around 50%, which is unacceptable. This is due to their failure to invest for the last 10-20 years if not more, while paying shareholders and bonuses to bosses.

This petition was rejected on 2nd Jul 2025 for not being a Government or Parliamentary matter

The Petition Committee commented:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for. Decisions about price controls for water are a matter for Ofwat, not the UK Government or Parliament. Under the Water Industry Act 1991, Ofwat has a statutory duty to make sure that companies are able to finance the proper carrying out of their functions. In setting price controls Ofwat's aim is to allow for a return on capital that is no more than necessary for an efficiently run company to get the funding they need, and that ensures customers only pay for a reasonable level of financing costs. You can find out more about Ofwat's price controls here: https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/regulated-companies/price-review/ You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: Review regulation of water companies https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/724126

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The public should not be paying for their failure. The government has put in place some measures to stop the abuse, the dumping of raw sewage in our rivers and see but has not stopped this year unacceptable and unrealistic increase. This increase will impact negatively on thousands of UK citizens and their quality of life and living standard. This has to be reviewed and stopped.