LETTER : Leaky argument

Tuesday 08 August 1995 23:02 BST

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From Dr Brian Betram

Sir: Your report on water leakage from the mains ("Leaks waste 826 gallons of water a day", 4 August) quoted Thames Water as saying that a tap dripping once a second wastes 10,000 gallons a year.

For that to be true, all those drips would have to be the size of marbles. Have Thames Water lost theirs?

Yours faithfully,

Brian Betram

Amberley,

Gloucestershire

5 August

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