On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 02:45:27 +0000, (Steve Firth)
wrote:

ARWadsworth wrote:

If you had to drink Manchester water you'd be dead inside a week.

The Mancunians drink Derbyshire water.

Umm not really the Derbyshire water goes to Sheffield and to Stockport.


The Longdendale Valley reservoirs were Manchester's first major scheme
to pipe water from well outside the city, being commissioned in 1851.
Last time I looked, they were still in Derbyshire. But in your
alternative version of reality, they could be absolutely anywhere, and
are probably filled to the brim with cheap extra virgin olive oil.