LETTER : Leaky argument
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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?
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5 August
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