We are aiming to raise as much money as possible to fund our legal challenge against the Government's Sewage Overflows Reduction Plan, and we need your help. 

If you are able, please donate and help us fight sewage pollution for wild fish and their habitats. 

An environmental scandal 

In 2021, raw sewage was spilt into our rivers by water companies for over 3 million hours. A large amount of this sewage dumping is illegal, but no action was taken. 

The failure to protect our natural environment from sewage pollution is a direct result of water companies' over-reliance on storm overflows. Originally designed to prevent the sewerage system from becoming overwhelmed, many of the 15,000 storm overflows that operate in England date back to the Victorian era and are not fit for purpose. 

The resulting sewage pollution is also a failure by the Government to ensure water companies meet their duty to treat sewage and not dump it raw into rivers.

The Government's unacceptable response 

In August 2022, the Government announced its Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan to tackle the impact of storm overflows. 

The plan approves and endorses the continued, widespread and unlawful use of storm overflows by giving water companies until 2050 to improve this failing infrastructure.  

In doing so, the Government's plan accepts that before these dates, storm overflows will continue to breach the law and the water companies' own environmental permits. 

As a result, sewage pollution from storm overflows will, for many years, continue to harm river health and endanger the health of recreational users. 

What are we trying to achieve? 

We are seeking to get the confusing and contradictory Sewage Discharge Reduction Plan withdrawn by the Courts and revised so that it addresses the urgent environmental disaster our rivers are facing right now. 

Investment in our sewage network is urgently needed now – not over the next 28 years.

Thank you for your support.