FLOOD THE STREET PROTEST 2025
OUR WATER INDUSTRY IS BROKEN
Bills are higher than ever, pipes are leaking, towns are flooded, supplies are cut off and sewage is still being released into our rivers and seas. All while private water companies and shareholders rake in profits.
Enough is enough! Join us on Saturday 4th October for a march to The Street to demand clean, reliable, public water for our communities and future.
Wear red, dress-up, bring your flags and banners!
The protest will meet at 3pm on the beach by the public toilets at Beach Walk, we will march to The Street where we’ll ask everyone ot gather for our collective photo celebrating our beautiful sea. We kindly ask everyone to bring something blue to wave - an old t-shirt, towel, bit of paper - any shade of blue will do!
A few guest speakers at The Street to be announced.
We will communicate any change via our social media channels so please keep checking.
WEAR RED & BRING SOMETHING BLUE
Our guest speakers include:
– Prem Sikka, Member, House of Lords
– Ash Smith, Founder of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP)
– Jo Robb, Member of the Henley Mermaids
– Chris Stanley, Retired magistrate taken to court for withholding payment
Why are we Protesting?
We are once again taking to Whitstable beach to protest against the water industry, which continues to blight our community with sewage pollution, harming the environment, endangering public health, and damaging the local economy.
The Labour government, like the Conservatives before them, has been idle on this issue, failing even to deliver on the weak pledges in their manifesto. Meanwhile, water companies rack up debt, hand out dividends and bonuses, and carry on polluting our seas and rivers. Enough is enough. The industry needs a drastic overhaul, and we want to spark a national debate on returning water to public ownership, the only long-term solution to this crisis.