In 2015, Fish Legal won a landmark legal case that secured a right for the public to access environmental information directly from privatised water companies in England and Wales. The right has been critical in exposing water company abuses – but it is under threat.
The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 are on a list of legislation that Defra is considering scrapping as part of a Government Bill currently progressing through Parliament. If the regulations and the case law disappear, privatised water companies can go back to polluting under a veil of secrecy.
We should not let this happen without a fight.
You can help by SIGNING FISH LEGALS PETITION to protect the right to know what damage water companies are doing to our rivers, lakes and coastal waters.