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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Harry Taylor

Bill to nationalise polluting water companies blocked by Government

The Government did not offer its support to Clive Lewis’s Water Bill (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

A proposed law that would take failing water companies back into public ownership if they repeatedly pollute Britain’s waterways has been blocked.

The Government did not offer its support to Clive Lewis’s Water Bill, which included a series of measures to tackle water pollution, including nationalising repeat offenders.

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