We’re disappointed to have to tell you that we lost our appeal for permission for judicial review of Ofwat’s regulation of sewage releases.  This is a blow to us and we know it will be to many who supported us financially and/or morally. We’ve invested a lot of time in researching the issue and its legal background, and over £40,000 of your donations in legal fees taking the case and then taking it on to the Court of Appeal. We gave it our best shot but there is nowhere else to go. 

There are some more details on our blog - click here.

But we want to say a big thank you to all who supported this challenge. We can't take legal challenges without public support and the support for this challenge was amazing. Thank you. 

We’ve already started some further investigations in relation to sewage discharges. We’ll let you know if anything comes of them. But we’d also like to wish others well in their actions on water quality; small organisations like Windrush Against Sewage Pollution with whom we worked closely, Surfers Against Sewage, River Action, Wild Fish and the incomparable Feargal Sharkey. 

We're sorry that we can't bring you better news.

Yesterday was amazing! You were so generous and we kept looking at the donations coming in at quite a speed. We never thought we'd raise £40,000 in a single day - but thanks to you we did. Thank you.

We've left the crowdfunder open for a little while as we are still in the range of financial commitments that we face at this stage of the legal challenge, but we'll almost certainly close it later today.

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