Hello David,

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:44:10 +0100 someone who may be "Dave Baker"
wrote this:-

the water authorities in this country seem to be totally unable to
provide for uninterrupted supplies of the stuff in one of the wettest
countries on earth.

In this country Scottish Water, a QANGO, does a reasonable job though
a far from perfect one.

In other parts of the UK (excluding perhaps Northern Ireland) I
understand water supply is privatised. This was supposed to bring
thrusting, forward-looking, enterprise to replace the tired old men of
the public sector.

No matter what the ownership, the problem the organisations concerned
face is rising demand.

Unless it has changed in recent years, one of the major problems was lack
of maintenance of the feeding channels into resevoirs. I can remember watching
a local news item in Yorkshire where a retired or laid-off maintenance chap
showed a feeding channel running off a hill to a resevoir. It was about
a foot wide. He was asked what was wrong with that and replied that the
concrete channel was actually six feet wide but had become filled with vegetation.
It had been his job to keep it clear.