There are stories about the Twittens of Durrington, a surly shop assistant, a teacher who gets in a bit of a pickle, robbers, horoscopes, the future, a project to help the homeless, ghosts and a clairvoyant trickster. There is also a longer story which is a revised version of "The Mirror of Eternity" which deals with time travel.
The water companies have had decades to prepare for the drought. In fact the money which could have created the infrastructure to cope with the demand has been siphoned off to shareholders in record profits. In all over 60 billion pounds have been paid to shareholders since 1991.
Hosepipe bans are a
stupid knee-jerk response to the crisis which the water
companies caused. They are blaming and punishing the victims.
Consumers do not waste water on the same scale as water
companies. Imagine our hosepipes wasting 3,000 million litres of water!
Leakages peaked five years after the privatisation of the
water companies.
If you are finding it difficult to water the garden, you probably have a fat cat sitting on the hosepipe!
