All Wet

Daveybloke's environmental token and failed forest salesbeing has been giving helpful advice to the millions of moisture consumers who wish to take advantage of the recent floods and thunderstorms by rushing for their hosepipes. Caroline Spelman "accepted the government needed to do more to make water companies reduce leakage", although precisely how much more than the present nothing much is as yet unclear. Employing the notorious prefix "We need to look at a whole range of ways" (in Standard English, "the profiteers are squealing for a bigger slice"), she advised councils making planning decisions to consider whether new developments could be supplied with water, which is certainly a thought.