LETTER : WATER LEAKS

IT IS a pity Geoffrey Lean's facts were wrong ("Water leak repairs hit an all-time low", 10 September). On a like-for-like basis, leakage in Wessex Water was 35 per cent of supply 10 years ago, 27 per cent last year, and we have a target, through increased investment, of 15 per cent by 2005.

Colin Skellett,

Wessex Water, Bristol