How wet is your drought?

[Grahamm]

I think the water authorities should be fixing their own pipework and stop it leaking before they hosepipe ban us.

Checking the figures, London alone has something like ten *thousand* miles of Victorian cast-iron pipework. Thames water have replaced 1,300 miles or so of it in the last five years.

At that rate, they'll have replaced it all by, oh, about 2050.